“Make Priyanka Gandhi PM and see how she will retaliate like Indira Gandhi”: Congress’ Imran Masood
He was defending her remarks on rising violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh.
He was defending her remarks on rising violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh.
The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) celebrated the Minorities Day on December 18.
Using its right to reply, India's representative Seema Pujani slammed her Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar.
Besides showing their religious evidence, the applicants belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Buddhist, Jain or Parsi faiths will also have to furnish documents to prove that they entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
Those who are opposed to the legislation have it is for the first time that India will grant citizenship on the basis of religion which violates the basic tenets of the country's constitution.
Ahead of the tabling of the bill in Rajya Sabha, PM Modi had hailed the Citizenship Bill as 'historic' and said that it will be 'written in golden letters for people who are persecuted on basis of religion'.
The heavy deployment comes amid violent protests emerging from the two northeast states over Citizenship Bill, which is being fiercely debated upon by the BJP government, its allies and the Opposition parties in Rajya Sabha.
The United Nations has refused to comment on THE controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 as the legislative process is underway.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 seeks to provide Indian citizenship to non-Muslim refugees coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan after facing religious persecution there.
Sanjay Raut stated that it is not right to play vote-bank politics on the matter and asked the Government to not 'attempt to create a Hindu-Muslim divide again'.
