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."
Keeping in mind the security of the passengers, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation closed the entry and exit gates of the Maujpur-Babarpur Metro Station.
Taking to Twitter Azad urged people to join the rally and carry the Indian flag to counter the saffron flag of the Hindutva ideologues of RSS.
On December 19, two people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) turned violent.
The author was addressing a protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and NRC at Shahid Smarak in Jaipur.
The protesters took out the march despite Madras High Court's interim order denying permission for protests.
