Union
Home Minister, Amit Shah, has alleged the Congress of sparking violence against
the amendment bill on citizenship on Saturday afternoon this week. Addressing an election rally at Girdih in
Jharkhand he said, “We amended citizenship bill and it is feeling of pain to
the Congress party which is fueling violence against the bill.” He added, “ I
want to assure Asamees and other people of Northeast Provinces that their
culture, social identities, language, political rights shall be intact and the
Modi government shall protect them.”
The
Northeastern provinces are on boil after the amendment of citizenship bill. A
mass protest is on road from Nagaland to Assam. Amit Shah added that the chief
minister of Meghalaya, Konrad Sangma, met him on this issue. Mr Shah was to
say, “ I have assured him to discuss the issues affirmatively to find the
solution.”
There are provisions in this bill to
provide citizenship to the refugees of Christians, Parsis, Jain, Bodhist, Sikh
and Hindus immigrant due to the religious torture from Pakistan, Bangladesh and
Afghanistan up to 31 December 2014.
The refugees of these 6 communities
after residing five years in the country shall be the holders of citizenship.
It was 11 years time to be residents for holding the citizenship of the country
before this bill comes in existence.
