Deferred Belonging
In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty.
In the border districts of West Bengal, citizenship is not an abstract legal status; it is a lived uncertainty.
The Central Government has issued the Immigration and Foreigners (Exemption) Order, 2025, introducing key exemptions from requirements related to valid passports, travel documents, and visas for specific categories of individuals and carriers.
Assam government has granted Indian citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act to two individuals out of the 39 applications so far.
The need to specify the date of entry to India in the application form, which they do not remember or have no proof in support of; filing an affidavit declaring citizenship at birth, etc., is worrying for them.
The TMC leader said that "we won't allow the BJP to run rollers on us with CAA."
The AIMIM president also requested the Telangana Police and the UIDAI to reveal how many of those 127 listed people are Muslim and Dalit.
The NPR is scheduled to be carried out along with the house listing phase of the Census exercise from April 1 to September 30.
As per the reports, heavy security was deployed at Home Minister's residence to counter the marching crowd. Police personnel were dressed in riot gear standing 500 meters away to stop the protesters.
The former Home Minister said that Congress believes the CAA must be repealed and there should be a political struggle so that the National Population Register (NPR) is pushed beyond 2024.
A spokesperson of research body 'education group' said, initially, they were given the permission to organise the programme at the IIT employees-run staff club within the campus on February 12.
