{"id":272912,"date":"2023-12-08T20:32:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=272912"},"modified":"2023-12-08T20:32:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T15:02:46","slug":"section-6a-who-is-a-citizen-who-is-an-illegal-immigrant-questions-before-sc-in-assam-citizenship-act-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/section-6a-who-is-a-citizen-who-is-an-illegal-immigrant-questions-before-sc-in-assam-citizenship-act-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 6A: Who is a citizen, who is an \u2018illegal immigrant\u2019: Questions before SC in Assam Citizenship Act case"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cWho is a citizen, who is an \u2018illegal immigrant\u2019: Questions before SC in Assam Citizenship Act case\u201d <\/b>published in \u201c<\/span>Indian Express\u201d on 8th December 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

A Five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has begun hearing pleas challenging Section 6A of the Citizenship Act,1955. Section 6A was introduced following the signing of the Assam Accord.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Assam Accord?<\/h2>\n

The Assam Accord was a Memorandum of Settlement (MoS) signed between the Government of India, Government of Assam and the All Assam Students Union in 1985. The accord brought an end to the Assam Agitation.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is Section 6A of the Citizenship Act,1955?<\/h2>\n

1) Section 6A was introduced in the Citizenship Act, 1955 to accommodate Clause 5 of the Assam Accord.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) It provides for special provisions for Assam with respect to citizenship. According to this-
\na. Immigrants who entered Assam before 1 January 1966<\/strong> would be considered Indian citizens and were allowed to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

b. Immigrants who entered Assam after 1 January 1966 but before 24 March 1971<\/strong> will be detected as \u201cforeigners\u201d. But they would have the opportunity to register themselves according to rules made by the Central Government.
\n<\/span>\u2013 They would be granted the same rights and obligations as Indian citizens for a period of 10 years except the right to vote. At the end of this ten-year period, they would be deemed citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n

c. Immigrants who entered Assam on or after 25 March 1971<\/strong> would be considered illegal immigrants and would be expelled from India.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) It forms the basis for conducting National Register of Citizens (NRC)<\/a> in the state of Assam.<\/p>\n

Why is Section 6A challenged in the Supreme Court?<\/h2>\n

1) By establishing a different cut-off date for Indian citizenship<\/strong> in Assam than in the rest of India \u2014 which is July 1948 \u2014 it is argued that Section 6 A is discriminatory, arbitrary and illegal<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

2) It has led to a significant change in the demographic pattern<\/strong> of Assam, reducing the indigenous Assamese people to a minority in their own state.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPSC Syllabus: Polity<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWho is a citizen, who is an \u2018illegal immigrant\u2019: Questions before SC in Assam Citizenship Act case\u201d published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 8th December 2023 Why in the News? A Five-judge Constitution bench of the Supreme Court has begun hearing pleas challenging Section 6A of the Citizenship… Continue reading Section 6A: Who is a citizen, who is an \u2018illegal immigrant\u2019: Questions before SC in Assam Citizenship Act case<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1760],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-272912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-polity-and-nation","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":10,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702074124},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}