Amit Shah to introduce Citizenship Amendment Bill tomorrow

New Delhi, December 8, 2019 Sunday

The Lok Sabha will introduce a citizenship reform bill by Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday and it is believed that all opposition parties will protest in unison.

Most opposition parties, led by Congress, oppose the current form of the bill. Congress president Sonia Gandhi held a meeting with party strategists and expressed her firm resolve to oppose the bill.

While BJP leader Ram Madhava has completely justified the government's proposal to grant citizenship to non-Muslim victims of three countries.

He said that India has opened its doors to minorities victims of harassment.

Ram Madhav further said that in the year 1950, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's government passed a similar bill in which the refugees of Pakistan were kept out of the clean.

He said that after the partition of the country on the basis of religion, it is the duty of the country to provide protection and citizenship to the afflicted minority communities of India in India.

Bharatiya Marxist party leader Sitaram Yechury has made it clear that his party will oppose religious discrimination. It will seek to remove the provision.

The controversial bill will be passed as the government has a majority in the Lok Sabha.

Apart from Congress, the Left parties, TMC, SP, BSP, RJD, DMK and NCP are opposing the bill.

However, it is difficult for the opposition to stop the passage of this bill in the Rajya Sabha.