TON, 1 January 2020: The Indian Parliament had passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 on 11^th December 2019. The act had triggered widespread protests across India and foreign countries where Indian Diaspora is residing. Most of the Indian are fearful that discrimination will be carried out on the basis of religion. Kerala has become the first state in India to pass a resolution demanding reversal of the controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).  The Centre has clarified that the Citizenship Amendment Act will not impact any Indian citizen including Muslims.

The Act focuses on allowing illegal migrants belonging to minority communities including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to earn Indian citizenship which was not allowed in Citizenship Act of 1955.The period of stay in India has been reduced from 12 years to 6 years for the grant citizenship even if they do not possess any proper document. More so, the registration of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card holders may be cancelled if they violate any law. The worse part of the Act is that is is anti-indigenous communities. There are high chances that India will be forced to give up the idea of bringing proposed amendments in Citizenship Amendment Act.