Dec 18, 2019
Merits and Demerits of Citizenship Amendment Bill ( CAB ) | by Kiran Bethamcherla The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill or CAB, which grants Indian citizenship to...
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill proposes to grant citizenship to the non-Muslims Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Buddhist, Jains and Parsis -- from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh who arrived in India before, In other words, the CAB paves way for Indian citizenship to lakhs of immigrants, who identify themselves with any of the given religions, even if they lacked any document to prove their residency. It also means that any immigrant who does not belong to the said communities would not be eligible for Indian citizenship.