LS votes in favour of tabling CAB

December 09, 2019 13:46

The Lok Sabha votes in favour of tabling the Citizenship Amendment Bill. 293 vote in favour of tabling the bill, while 82 vote against tabling the bill.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Lok Sabha on Monday said the name of the Muslim community is nowhere mentioned in the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019.

"Nowhere in the Bill, is the Muslim community named even once. You cannot distort and present it in the House," said Amit Shah after tabling the Bill, while replying to a member from Opposition Bench who alleged that the Bill is discriminatory against the community.

"Why do we need this Bill today? After independence, if Congress had not done Partition on the basis on religion, then, today we would have not needed this Bill. Congress did Partition on the basis of religion. If any Muslim from these three (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh) nations, applies for citizenship according to our law, then we will consider it, but the person won't get benefit of this amendment as the person has not faced religious persecution."

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 seeks to grant Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

Through this bill, Indian citizenship will be provided to the members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities, who have come from the three countries to India till December 31, 2014, to put an end to them being treated as illegal immigrants in the country.

The Bill was passed by the Lower House of the Parliament earlier this year but lapsed with the term of the previous Lok Sabha during the first term of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi government in the Centre.

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