Until 2005, the Indian government did not permit dual citizenship, and this prevented many people of Indian descent from living and working in India. In response, theCitizenship Amendment Act of 2005was passed.
However, in opposition, the Congress lawmaker Anand Sharma said the bill was an assault on the constitution of India. "I strongly oppose the bill for it's as it hurts the soul of India and fails morality test," Sharma said. Opposition parties criticized the bill as contrary to secular pri...
This book considers how the civic ideals embodied in India's constitution are undermined by exclusions based on social and economic inequalities, sometimes even by its own strategies of inclusion. Once seen by Westerners as a political anomaly, India today is the case study that no global ...
The Constitution of India does not allow holding Indian citizenship and citizenship of a foreign country simultaneously. Based on the recommendation of the High Level committee on Indian Diaspora, the Government of India decided to grant Overseas Citizen
The objective of immigration is gaining citizenship or nationality in a different country. In India, the law relating to citizenship or nationality is mainly governed by the provisions of the Constitution. The Constitution of India provides for single citizenship for the entire country. ...
Does the CAA violate Article 14 of the Indian Constitution? As soon as the bill was introduced in the parliament, the northeastern state of Assam reacted in a very volatile manner which was considered as Riots by the police and the government. The Northern part of the cou...
The founding fathers of Indian independence from British rule in the 1940s, the likes of Mahatma Gandhi, envisaged a secular nation, building a constitution where Hindus and Muslims were equal under the law. The violence in Delhi prompted questions as to whether the country was desc...
Opposition parties and civil society members in India criticized the act as contrary to secular principles enshrined in India's constitution as it excludes Muslims. With this new act, the centre government would grant Indian citizenship to those non-Muslim immigrants who had entered the country illeg...
grant Citizenship on reasonable grounds to refugees facing religious persecution in the above three countries, which in no way go against any provision under the Constitution of India and does not violate Article 14. He also reassured that no provision of Article 371 would be violated by this ...
Citizenship Requirements and Pathways In India, citizenship requirements and pathways are predominantly regulated by the Indian Constitution11 and the Citizenship Act, 1955.12 Under current law, Indian citizenship is largely determined by the rule of jus sanguinis (citizenship of the parents) as supposed...