{"id":54228,"date":"2019-12-16T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogadmin.forumias.com\/?p=54228"},"modified":"2020-02-26T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:59:32","slug":"7-pm-why-you-dont-love-immigrants-as-much-as-you-claim-cab-effect-on-indias-diplomatic-relations-16th-december-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-why-you-dont-love-immigrants-as-much-as-you-claim-cab-effect-on-indias-diplomatic-relations-16th-december-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"7 PM | Why you don\u2019t love immigrants as much as you claim: CAB effect on India&#8217;s diplomatic relations| 16th December 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Context:\n<\/strong>Effects\nof passage of of Citizenship Amendment Bill on the diplomatic relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More\nin news:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 was\nintroduced in Lok Sabha on 9<sup>th<\/sup> December and passed on the same day.\nThe bill also got passed in Rajya Sabha on 11<sup>th<\/sup> December.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Citizenship\nin India:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In India, citizenship is regulated by\nthe Citizenship Act, 1955. &nbsp;<\/li><li>The Act specifies that citizenship may\nbe acquired in India through five methods \u2013 by birth in India, by descent,\nthrough registration, by naturalisation (extended residence in India) and by\nincorporation of territory into India.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Can\nillegal migrants acquire citizenship?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>An illegal migrant is prohibited from\nacquiring Indian citizenship. <\/li><li>An illegal immigrant is a foreigner who\neither enters India illegally, i.e., without&nbsp;valid travel documents, like\na visa and passport, or enters India legally, but stays beyond the time period\npermitted in their travel documents. &nbsp;<\/li><li>An illegal migrant can be prosecuted in\nIndia and deported or imprisoned. &nbsp;<\/li><li>Illegal migrants may be imprisoned or\ndeported under the Foreigners Act, 1946 and the Passport (Entry into India) Act,\n1920.&nbsp; <\/li><li>The 1946 and the 1920 Acts empower the\ncentral government to regulate the entry, exit and residence of foreigners\nwithin India.&nbsp;<\/li><li>In September 2015 and July 2016, the\ncentral government exempted certain groups of illegal migrants from being\nimprisoned or deported.&nbsp;&nbsp;These are illegal migrants who came into\nIndia from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, or Pakistan on or before December 31, 2014,\nand belong to the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, or Christian religious\ncommunities.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Citizenship\nAmendment Bill 2019:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The 2019 Bill seeks to make illegal\nmigrants who are&nbsp;Hindus,&nbsp;Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and\nChristians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, eligible for citizenship.<\/li><li>The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill exempts\ncertain areas in the North-East from this provision.<\/li><li>The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill would\nnot apply to tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura as included\nin Sixth Schedule of the Constitution and the area covered under the Inner\nLimit notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.<\/li><li>This effectively means that Arunachal\nPradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram along with almost whole of Meghalaya and parts of\nAssam and Tripura would stay out of the purview of the Citizenship (Amendment)\nBill.<\/li><li>Besides, the citizenship bill also makes\namendments to provisions related to the Overseas Citizens of India (OCI)\ncardholders.<\/li><li>To obtain citizenship by naturalisation,\none of the qualifications is that the person must have resided in India or have\nbeen in service of the central government for at least 11 years before applying\nfor citizenship.<\/li><li>The Bill creates an exception for\nHindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan,\nBangladesh and Pakistan, with regard to this qualification. For these groups of\npersons, the 11 years\u2019 requirement will be reduced to five years.<\/li><li>The 1955 Act provides that the central\ngovernment may cancel the registration of OCIs on various grounds.&nbsp; The\nBill adds one more ground for cancelling registration, that is, if the OCI has\nviolated any law notified by the central government.&nbsp; It further states\nthat orders for cancellation of OCI should not be passed till the cardholder is\ngiven an opportunity to be heard.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Effects\nof the Bill on the diplomatic relations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The UN is closely analysing the possible\nconsequences of India&#8217;s amended Citizenship Act. The spokesperson insisted that\nthe world body has its basic principles, including those enshrined in the\nUniversal Declaration of Human Rights and expect those to be upheld.<\/li><li><strong>Bangladesh:<\/strong><\/li><li>There\nis little debate today that the Bangladesh-India partnership has greatly\nbenefited from Hasina\u2019s patronage of goodwill-generating initiatives.\nBangladesh has also shown an unfettered commitment to India\u2019s national security\nby showing zero-tolerance for all forms of terrorism.<\/li><li>However,\nrecent political developments within India could threaten the friendship that\nBangladesh has nurtured, maintained and remains committed to. More\nspecifically, the Government of India\u2019s decision to go ahead with the passing\nof the CAB will now aid the political implementation of the NRC as it gives\nspecial status to Hindus and people belonging to other religions but not to\nMuslims.<\/li><li>Though\nthe passage of the CAB was immediately followed by the cancellation of official\nvisits by Bangladesh\u2019s home minister and foreign minister, both sides still\nofficially maintain that the NRC is India\u2019s internal issue.<\/li><li>Japan PM Shinzo Abe&#8217;s India Visit\nPostponed Amid Protests Over Citizenship Act. Guwahati, the planned venue for a\nsummit between Abe and PM Modi, has been engulfed in violent protests over the\nCAB.<\/li><li>The CAB and the NRC are instruments that\ntry to facilitate the reconfiguration of India\u2019s social fabric into two broad\nidentities Hindus and the rest, which serves only the narrow interests of the\nruling coalition in Delhi, especially because it relies on religious\nidentity-based jingoism as a political tool. Hence, the CAB and the NRC will\ndeepen the communal divide that remains ever-present within the social fabric\nof South Asia.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Bilateral ties that overcame such strong\nhistoric impediments deserve respect, as they were created with hard work,\nmeticulous political strategies, good intent and visionary leadership. Any\npolitical strategy that undermines such accomplishments merits reconsideration.\nTies with Bangladesh, in particular, need careful consideration.<\/li><li>There is little doubt that one cannot\nensure geopolitical stability, security and social harmony by legitimising a\npolitical strategy that aims to turn a democracy into a communal, majoritarian\npolitical order, particularly when the Subcontinent has navigated a deeply\ndivisive past, culminating in a profound distrust for one\u2019s neighbour.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:\n<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/opinion\/columns\/why-you-don-t-love-immigrants-as-much-as-you-claim-11576421441963.html\">https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/opinion\/columns\/why-you-don-t-love-immigrants-as-much-as-you-claim-11576421441963.html<\/a><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context: Effects of passage of of Citizenship Amendment Bill on the diplomatic relations. More in news: The Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 was introduced in Lok Sabha on 9th December and passed on the same day. The bill also got passed in Rajya Sabha on 11th December. Citizenship in India: In India, citizenship is regulated by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/7-pm-why-you-dont-love-immigrants-as-much-as-you-claim-cab-effect-on-indias-diplomatic-relations-16th-december-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">7 PM | Why you don\u2019t love immigrants as much as you claim: CAB effect on India&#8217;s diplomatic relations| 16th December 2019<\/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":[130,955,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-pm","category-7-pm-brief-infograph","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700771052,"cached_date":1704763889},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228","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=54228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}