KERALA AGAINST CAA & NRC
Cochin Herald|January - February 2020
India has been rife with violent protests since the 11th of December 2019, most of them being in the nation’s capital.
KERALA AGAINST CAA & NRC

The protests unfurled across the country and a pan-Indian opposition to the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC), and Kerala led the fight from the forefront.

What is the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)?

On the 11th of December 2019, the Indian Parliament passed the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. This amended the Citizenship Act from 1955 to allow a path to Indian citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian minority members fleeing persecution before December 2014 from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It is apparent that Muslims from the countries listed were not offered eligibility for the same. This is an example of the first and overt use of religion as a citizenship criterion under nationality law in India.

Ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) promised to offer Indian citizenship to religious minorities persecuted from neighboring countries as part of their election manifestos in the past. In the most recent amendment, those migrants who entered India before 31st of December 2014 were made eligible for citizenship. It also relaxed the naturalization residency requirement for these migrants to six years from twelve.

What is the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?

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