Modi's New Challenge to get Non-Muslim Refugees

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Modi's new challenge to get non-Muslim refugees

Before Modi's upcoming Lok Sabha election, the Modi government took up the challenge of giving citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from neighboring countries. In particular, the Modi government has taken this initiative to hold refugees voting in politics. And for this, the citizenship amendment bill is being brought to the Parliament of India.

As far as the Lok Sabha elections are coming up, the anxiety is rising as the BJP is in power in India. BJP won by a huge margin in 2014, the BJP announced in the power of single power, the BJP has been in power for 10 years. But the day is progressing and the popularity of the BJP is decreasing after five years of decline and their anxiety is increasing. Now the latest opinion polls are also highlighted, as of 2014, the BJP will not be able to win by a huge margin and the NDA, formed by the BJP. Although the votes will be reduced, the vote will be less. Again, if all the opposition parties can form an anti-Modi coalition, then there will be a risk of BJP's defeat. Yet, the BJP has come down to win these possibilities in the hope of winning again. Now, to ensure the voting of the refugees who come to India from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, citizenship.

On the eve of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Modi announced that non-Muslim refugees coming to India from neighboring Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan will be given citizenship. For this purpose, the bill was sent to the parliamentary committee in 2016 due to opposition, although the citizenship amendment bill-2013 was introduced in 2016. Again, the Modi government has started to pass the bill again. If this bill is not passed, then the central government may bring an ordinance to this target before the election. That indicates Indian media. In order to ensure the vote bank of non-Muslim refugees more. Now the parliamentary committee is examining the draft bill of citizenship.

Meanwhile, the Indian government has issued guidelines for the citizenship of non-Muslim refugees who have become refugees from neighboring countries in 7 states of India. Under this direction, 16 districts of 7 states of India have been brought under The Deputy Commissioners of these districts have been asked to give citizenship to citizens of neighboring countries who come to those districts. But if the remaining districts of those states have refugees, they can apply to the Chief Secretaries of the concerned states.

These citizenship will be given to those who have come to India from India for fear of being tortured or killed before 2014. The citizenship list includes minority Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Persian and refugees of Christian communities. Refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan, especially from neighboring India, will get this opportunity. And the seven listed states are Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. However, the list did not include West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. Although most of these three states of India came from refugees from Bangladesh.

The names of the 16 districts mentioned in the list are Raipur in Chhattisgarh; Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kutch in Gujarat; Madhya Pradesh's Bhopal and Indore; Nagpur, Mumbai, Pune and Thane in Maharashtra; Jaipur, Jodhpur and Jaisalmari in Rajasthan; Lucknow of Uttar Pradesh and south and west districts of Delhi.

It has been said that before the year 2014, if one comes to India from the aforesaid countries, then he will be able to apply for Indian citizenship. These guidelines have been sent to the district administrators of 16 districts of the seven states on Thursday. It has been said that if refugees from those countries are living in different areas of the state, they can apply to the Chief Secretary of those states in this regard. It further states that the district and local bodies of the district and citizens of the district will be given citizenship under the provisions of 5 and 6 of Indian citizenship Act of 1955. The Central Government issued this order on October 25.