The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), during its 46th foundation day celebrations at Gandhi Maidan in Dumka on Sunday night, passed a 50-point resolution strongly opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Uniform Civil Code (UCC), and National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Jharkhand.
Police in western Assam’s Barpeta district sent 28 Muslims declared “non-citizens” by the Foreigners’ Tribunals (FTs) to a ‘transit camp’ at Matia in the Goalpara district on Monday.
The Assam government days ago asked the state’s border police not to forward the cases of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi, Jain, and Christian people who entered India illegally before 2014 to the Foreigners Tribunals, citing the CAA.
The Supreme Court on April 19 sought a reply from the Union government and the Assam State government on a petition challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024, which aims to grant citizenship to ‘non-Muslim’ migrants who came from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 31, 2014.
Forty-three-year-old Montu Das was happy after the Indian government announced the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules on March 11.
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Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday assured the people that if the Congress is voted to power, citizenship will not be decided on the basis of caste, religion or language, but on the principle of the idea of India.