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Citizenship Amendment Act

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Mamata Banerjee lies about CAA, says it will grant refugee status to citizens, strip them of their voting rights, and govt scheme benefits: Here’s...

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2024

Mamata Banerjee claimed that CAA applicants will be marked as refugee infiltrators and sent to detention camps.

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Rahul Gandhi’s “secular” IUML, an offshoot of Jinnah’s Muslim League, approaches SC to stay CAA, says it offers ‘unfair advantage’ to minorities from Islamic...

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2024

On Monday, March 11, the Centre notified the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules.

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‘Anti-Muslim, discriminatory, exclusionary’: International media peddles false narrative against CAA to incite Indian Muslims

Shraddha Pandey - 12 March, 2024

The blatant labelling of CAA as ‘anti-Muslim’, ‘discriminatory’ and whatnot insinuates that the most important aspect of the Act is not that it will allow citizenship in India to persecuted Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist, and Christian communities but that it ‘excludes Muslims’.

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‘CAA will not take away citizenship of any Indian citizen irrespective of religion’: PIB fact-checks lies of Qatar-owned, Islamist propaganda outlet Al Jazeera

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2024

"Misinformation is being spread by Al Jazeera regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act, calling the act 'anti-Muslim'," PIB tweeted.

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“Unconstitutional, anti-Muslim, religion-based”: As CAA is implemented, Owaisi, Al Jazeera and others start peddling misinformation, call for protests

OpIndia Staff - 12 March, 2024

In 2020, the same ecosystem was at work inciting Islamists against CAA and manufacturing propaganda against India and Hindus through the Western media

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Mamata Banerjee; ‘Muslim journalist’ and Islamists start inciting violence, “CAA implemented on eve of Ramzan” seems to be the new toolkit

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2024

As soon as the Union Home Ministry officially notified the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), journalists, lawmakers, and Islamists, went into overdrive spreading false information that the Act discriminates against Muslims returned with a new toolkit, this time using the Muslim festival of Ramadan to promote their anti-Modi rhetorics

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Government of India notifies implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules: Read what gazette notification says

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2024

The Lok Sabha on 9th December 2019 passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2019 while the Rajya Sabha passed it on 11th December 2019.

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Union Home Ministry to notify CAA today, state DGPs & Chief Secretaries to chair meetings: Reports

OpIndia Staff - 11 March, 2024

On 6th March, Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police (DGP) Prashant Kumar had stated that the UP Police is completely ready for CAA to be implemented.

Opinions

With some Muslims feeling unsafe in India, Pakistan should introduce its own version of CAA

Virender Kapoor - 20 February, 2024

Elections have just finished in Pakistan- Whichever government comes, or grabs power, should take up a task in the very first meeting of the cabinet to start a ‘CAA-PAKISTAN’, or CAAPAK (they normally copy us) to accept all those Muslims in India who feel persecuted

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