The Central Government has issued a notification to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). With this, the Citizenship Amendment Act has now come into effect nationwide.
However, there is controversy regarding the implementation of this law in several states.
However, the Indian Constitution clearly states that no state can refuse to implement the CAA because it falls under the domain of the Union List, not the State List.
The Citizenship Amendment Bill was passed by both houses of Parliament in December 2019. Since then, there have been widespread protests across the country.
Under this law, persecuted Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis, and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh are provided with Indian citizenship.
However, the condition is that these individuals must have entered India before December 31, 2014.