What you should know about India's 'anti-Muslim' citizenship bill

Posted on AllSides December 9th, 2019
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New Delhi, India - India's lower House of Parliament (Lok Sabha) is debating the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which will grant citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries, with legal experts saying it violates the country's secular constitution.

The bill, which seeks to amend the 1955 citizenship law, aims to give citizenship to "persecuted" minorities - Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians - from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but excludes Muslims.

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