“Narendra Modi bhagwan ka roop hai…”: Pakistan refugees elated after implementation of CAA

fter years of delay, the Citizenship Modification Act (CAA) 2019 has been lastly applied in India. The Union Residence Ministry on March 11 notified guidelines for implementation of the CAA, days forward of LS Polls 2024. The Act goals to confer Indian citizenship to persecuted non-Muslim migrants together with Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians who migrated from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan and arrived in India earlier than December 31, 2014.

Shortly after the announcement, celebrations broke out among the many Pakistan refugees who had taken shelter in India. Elated by the implementation, one of many refugees from Jodhpur, known as PM Modi an ‘incarnation of God’ and in addition thanked him. As per Govt report for 2021-22, between April 1, 2021 and Dec 31, 2021, as many as 1,414 people from non-Muslim minority communities originating from Pak, Bangladesh, Afghanistan have been granted Indian citizenship by means of registration or naturalisation below Citizenship Act, 1955. Notably, following passage of CAA by Parliament in Dec 2019 and its subsequent Presidential assent, vital uproar erupted throughout India. Over 100 people misplaced their lives throughout the nation both throughout protests or as a result of police motion.

Video and textual content courtesy: ANI