Reported By: Ankur Sharma
Final Up to date: March 12, 2024, 21:07 IST
In keeping with the MHA, because of the persecution of minorities in these three Muslim international locations, the identify of Islam was tarnished all over the world. (IANS File)
“There isn’t any bar on Muslims from anyplace on the earth to hunt Indian Citizenship beneath Part 6 of the Citizenship Act, which offers with the citizenship by naturalisation,” the MHA stated
To defuse misinformation amongst Muslim group concerning the Citizenship Modification Act 2024, the Ministry of Residence Affairs (MHA) has stated that the act wouldn’t take any Indian’s citizenship, no matter their faith. Additionally, India doesn’t have any pact or settlement to repatriate Muslim migrants again to their international locations.
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Whereas replying to the considerations associated to implications of the Act for Muslims, who’ve been residing in India, the Union Residence ministry stated: “Indian Muslims needn’t fear as CAA has not made any provision to influence their citizenship and has nothing to do with the current 18 crore Indian Muslims, who’ve equal rights like their Hindu counterparts. No Indian citizen can be requested to provide any doc to show his citizenship after this Act.”
“With out curbing the liberty and alternative of Indian Muslims to get pleasure from their rights, as they’ve been often practising and entertaining since Independence, like different Indian residents belonging to different religions, CAA (Citizenship Modification Act) 2019 has decreased the qualification interval of utility for citizenship from 11 to five years for the beneficiaries who had been persecuted on non secular grounds in Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan and who had entered India on or earlier than December 31, 2014, with an goal to indicate a beneficiant remedy to them as compensation for appeasing their persecution,” MHA stated.
Any pact to repatriate Muslims exterior India?
Whereas clearing the air on whether or not there may be any provision or settlement for repatriating unlawful Muslim migrants to Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the Ministry of Residence Affairs stated, “India doesn’t have any pact or settlement with any of those international locations to repatriate migrants again to those international locations. This Citizenship Act doesn’t take care of the deportation of unlawful immigrants and due to this fact the priority of a Part of the folks, together with Muslims and college students, that the CAA is towards Muslim minorities is unjustifiable.”
The ministry additionally stated that Like Citizenship Act, 1955, this CAA defines unlawful migrant as a foreigner who has entered India with out legitimate paperwork.
Affect on the picture of Islam
In keeping with the MHA, because of the persecution of minorities in these three Muslim international locations, the identify of Islam was badly tarnished all all over the world. Nonetheless, Islam, being a peaceable faith, by no means preaches or suggests hatred/violence/any persecution on non secular grounds. This Act exhibiting the compassion and compensation for the persecution, protects Islam from being tarnished within the identify of persecution.
The Ministry has additionally stated that there isn’t any bar for Muslims from in search of Indian citizenship. “There isn’t any bar on Muslims from anyplace on the earth to hunt Indian Citizenship beneath Part 6 of the Citizenship Act, which offers with the citizenship by naturalisation,” MHA stated.
Whereas giving the explanations to introducing the amendments, the MHA stated, “To point out the mercy on the persecuted minorities of these three international locations, this Act provides alternative to them as per the evergreen beneficiant tradition of India to get Indian Citizenship for his or her comfortable and affluent future. To customize the Citizenship system and management the unlawful migrants, there was want of this Act.”
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In 2016, the Central authorities additionally made minorities of these three international locations eligible for long-term visa to remain in India.
CAA doesn’t cancel the naturalisation legal guidelines. Due to this fact, any particular person together with the Muslim migrants from any international nation, in search of to be an Indian citizen, can apply for a similar beneath the prevailing legal guidelines. This Act doesn’t stop any Muslim, who’s persecuted in these three Islamic international locations for training their model of Islam, from making use of for Indian citizenship beneath the prevailing legal guidelines.
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