Paving the way for Parliament to take up the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Union Cabinet approved Wednesday the draft law that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan if they have faced religious persecution there.
Slammed by the Opposition as divisive and communal, the bill is a key part of the BJP’s ideological project as it proposes citizenship to non-Muslim, mostly Hindus, refugees living in India and will protect them from the nation-wide NRC drive the central government is planning to identify illegal immigrants.
At the Cabinet briefing, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said the government has taken care of the interests of everyone and ‘the interest of India’.
‘People will welcome it as it is in the interest of the nation,’ Javadekar said when asked about the protests by different groups, especially in northeastern states where refugees from the three neighbouring countries have been living in large numbers.
The government is likely to introduce the bill in the next two days and may push for its passage the next week.
The draft legislation is expected to sail through Lok Sabha, where the BJP has a big majority, and is unlikely to face serious hurdles in Rajya Sabha as well as the ruling party has often managed the support of parties like the BJD, TRS and YSR Congress for its flagship agenda.
Top BJP leaders, including its president and Home Minister Amit Shah, have held extensive parleys with political parties and citizen groups from the northeast to assuage their concerns by incorporating some of their major concerns to protect the local ethnic and tribal interests.
The Modi government had tabled the bill in Parliament in the last year of its previous term as well. Lok Sabha had passed it but it was blocked by Rajya Sabha.
Despite facing serious opposition, including from allies, the ruling BJP has expressed its determination time and again to the bill.
Senior party leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh had Tuesday asked BJP MPs to be present in large numbers in Parliament when the bill is tabled.
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