Citizenship Amendments 2019 -Facts and Myths

1. "Discovery of India through Constituent Assembly Debates"  Initiative of Adv S P Singh Rajawat                    Citizenship Amendments 2019  -Facts and  Myths
   Sr  No	Issue	Answer
   1.	Will  amendments  affect the citizenship of all people of India ?	No
   2.	Will affect the citizenship of minorities  of India?	No
   3.	Will affect the citizenship of majorities  of India?	No
   4.	Is this a policy decision ?	Yes
   5.	Can  any Sovereign State can take such decision?	Yes
   6.	Does it violate Article 14 of Constitution Of India ?	No
   7.	Does intelligible differentia permit such classification ?	Yes
   8.	Does this policy decision signify the failure of 3 states- Pakistan , Afghanistan and Bangladesh  on the issue of discrimination on the sole basis of religion	Yes
   9.	That this bill is about religious persecution of minorities Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian. It is unthinkable for Muslims to be persecuted in Islamic countries on the ground of practice of Islam where they are in the majority.	Yes
   10.	566 Muslims have been granted Indian citizenship from 2014 to 2019 by the current government.	Yes
   11.	Is India the only natural home land for Hindus	Yes
   12.	Is this policy continuity of ancient foreign policy of India for providing asylum on account of religious persecution	Yes
   13.	Does this new provision allow cancellation of OCI registration if the person has violated any law notified by the Central government	Yes
   14.	Does The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill exempts certain areas in the North-East from this provision	Yes
   15.	Will Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Mizoram along with almost whole of Meghalaya and parts of Assam and Tripura would stay out of the purview of the Citizenship Amendment	Yes
   16.	Article 5 of Constitution of India  is  general policy	Yes
   17.	Article 6 of Constitution of India  is  result of Partition of India	Yes
   18.	Article 7 of Constitution of India   is result of Partition of India	Yes
   19.	Article 10 of Constitution of India is about Continuance of  Indian Citizenship	Yes
   20.	Art 11of Constitution of India  empowers Parliament on Citizenship law	Yes
   21.	That The Citizenship Act of 1955 was enacted by the parliament under Article 11 of the constitution	Yes
   22.	That any Hindu not citizen of any country be deemed as Citizen of India was proposed during the Constituent Assembly Debates(CAD)	Yes
   23.	That there were three permits at the time of making of the Constitution of India (CAD)	Yes
   24.	First -purely temporary	Yes
   25.	Second-not entitle a person to settle but entitles applicant to repeatedly come o business	Yes
   26.	Third- permanent return to India and settle in India	Yes
   27.	That international law permits such classification	Yes
   28.	That domicile and citizenship are two inter related things	Yes
   29.	That United India includes the geographical area of India, Afghanistan and Bangladesh	Yes
   30.	That Liaquat-Nehru pact failed to achieve its objectives in protecting minorities in Pakistan	Yes
   31.	That the Citizenship policy at the commencement of the constitution was criticized on the grounds of appeasement of Muslims which included narrow and western idea of secularism   (CAD)	Yes
   32.	That Liaquat-Nehru pact is “a bill of rights for minority communities” of both countries and is also known as the Delhi pact.	Yes
   33.	That  An illegal migrant is a foreigner who enters the country without valid travel documents, like a passport and visa, or enters with valid documents, but stays beyond the permitted time period.	Yes
   34.	That governments in the past have made exceptions by acts of parliament, under Article 11 of the constitution, to grant citizenship to such migrants. Grant of citizenship to over 150,000 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka in 1974, by Rajiv Gandhi government, is one such example.	Yes
   35.	That   Assam accord where cut-off date was 25 March 1971 but now that date will shift to 31 December 2014	Yes
   36.	That The other states of North East, including Sikkim, are also opposing the bill for various reasons. Despite most of their areas being under Inner Line Permit (ILP) where outsiders have to register and seek a permit to enter the states, most of them still have a lot of apprehensions.	Yes
   37.	That While Muslims and Christians can bank on scores of countries across the world, as far as Hindus, Sikhs and Jains are concerned, they only have India to fall back on	Yes
   38.	That Christians have been included since, in the three countries that are included in CAB, most would-be converts from Hindus or other local religions. Interestingly Muslims Christians appear to be included here as there are no exceptions.	Yes
   39.	That Buddhists have been included since India is the birthplace of this religion	Yes
   40.	Inclusion of Parsis is not surprising since India is their nation after they took shelter here when they were persecuted to near extinction in Iran around seventh century AD.	Yes
   41	That Given the critical state of things in the state of Jammu & Kashmir today, perhaps the government could have chosen a better time for its introduction and implementation.	Yes
   42	That It would have made no difference if the bill had come up in the parliament after another six months	May Be
   43	That the agitation is due to political propaganda	Yes
   44	That the protestors are reading the amendments of 2016	Yes
   45	That the amend 2019 incorporated the select committee 2016 recommendations	Yes
   46	That amend 2019 are not applicable to 6 schedule , constitution of India	Yes
   47	That amend 2019 is guided by the procedure , failing which the applications can be rejected	Yes
   48	That amend 2019 respect Assam Accord	Yes
   49	That amend 2019 affects the citizenship application of non mentioned categories	No
   50	Can other non mentioned categories still apply for citizenship in India	Yes
   51	Nothing of amed 2019 shall apply to tribal area of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution and the area covered under "The Inner Line" notified under the Bengal Eastern Frontier Regulation, 1873.'.	Yes