{"id":29554,"date":"2018-10-26T11:09:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29554"},"modified":"2018-10-26T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T05:39:55","slug":"protest-over-citizenship-for-hindu-migrantsthe-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protest-over-citizenship-for-hindu-migrantsthe-hindu\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest over citizenship for Hindu migrants(The Hindu)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/protest-over-citizenship-for-hindu-migrants\/article23807357.ece\">Protest over citizenship for Hindu migrants<\/a>(The Hindu)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a JPC hearing, parties and organisations say it\u2019s a move to legitimise post-1971 settlers<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 began a hearing in Assam on Monday amid protests across the Brahmaputra Valley against the Union government\u2019s alleged move to make the State a \u201clegitimise Hindus who have migrated from Bangladesh after 1971\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Violation of Assam Accords 1985<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bill, introduced in the Lok Sabha on July 15, 2016, seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslims who had fled persecution in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, indigenous groups in Assam view it as a move to legitimise post-1971 Hindu migrants.<\/li>\n<li>They see it as a violation of the provisions of the Assam Accord of 1985 \u2014 it ended a six-year anti-foreigners\u2019 agitation \u2014 that prescribes deportation for everyone who entered the State illegally after the midnight of March 24, 1971<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protest over citizenship for Hindu migrants(The Hindu) Context During a JPC hearing, parties and organisations say it\u2019s a move to legitimise post-1971 settlers\u00a0 What has happened? The Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 began a hearing in Assam on Monday amid protests across the Brahmaputra Valley against the Union government\u2019s alleged move&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/protest-over-citizenship-for-hindu-migrantsthe-hindu\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protest over citizenship for Hindu migrants(The Hindu)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704768380},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}