Aditya Kumar, (B.A LL.B, LL.M) Research Scholar, National University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi
ABSTRACT
Recently on the demand of the Leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly the honourable Home mister of India was quoted as saying that once the vaccination drive on the Covid-19 vaccine ends India will implement the Citizenship amendment act, 2019(CAA, 2019) and also a number of demands have been raised by the people of Mizoram that due to the ongoing crisis on Myanmar many of the Rohingya refugees who are fleeing Myanmar are reaching Mizoram and its imperative that the central government does something about it. The world is also going through the Russia Ukraine crisis which is going to create another immigrant crisis and India is a country which does not have any policy on refugees and CAA, 2019 is one of the very few legislation that comes close to telling us the mindset of the Indian Government on the granting citizenship to people forced to leave their country and enter India. In this article we will try to understand what CAA 2019 is, does it pass the constitutional test. The major thrust of the present article is to project government’s stance on the Citizenship Amendment Act, 20191, constitutional provisions in relation to the Act, criticism relating to the act, challenges ahead in respect of its implementation, by establishing the fact that any measure taken must remain in conformity with international norms and values and necessity of amending the law to do away with the arbitrary selection of countries and religious groups.
Keywords: Citizenship, CAA, Persecution, Equality, Foreigners, Citizenship Act, 1955, Tribunal, Illegal immigrant, Original inhabitant, Registration, Naturalisation.
