US Federal Body To Impose Sanctions Against Amit Shah If CAB Passed In Parliament

Terming the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill “a dangerous flip within the wrong direction”, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)has explicit it's “deeply troubled” by the Bill’s religion criterion and therefore the United States government should consider the sanctions against the Union Home Minister Amit Shah if the Bill is elapsed by the Upper House, too.

Raising serious issues over the passage of CAB in Lok Sabha's late weekday, USCIRF during a press note aforesaid, “The CAB enshrines a pathway to citizenship for immigrants that specifically excludes Muslims, setting a legal criterion for citizenship based on faith. The CAB may be a dangerous flip within the wrong direction; it runs counter to India’s made history of secular pluralism and therefore the Indian Constitution, which guarantees equality before the law notwithstanding religion.”

According to the projected legislation, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, who come back from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan, till December 31, 2014, facing spiritual ill-treatment there, won't be treated as illegal immigrants however given Indian citizenship. The bill ignores Muslims.

The federal U.S.A. commission on international religious freedom aforesaid introduction of CAB together with the ongoing National Register of Citizens (NRC) method has instilled fears that the “religious test” would strip innumerable Muslims of their citizenship.

“In conjunction with the continued National Register of voters (NRC) process in Assam and nationwide NRC that the Home Minister seeks to propose, USCIRF fears that the Indian government is making a religious test for Indian citizenship that might strip citizenship from innumerable Muslims.”

The United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs during a tweet aforesaid, religious pluralism is central to the foundations of both India and the U.S.A., and “any religious test for citizenship undermines this most basic democratic tenet”.

Talking regarding the Citizenship Amendment Bill, the EU ambassador to India Ugo Astuto, aforesaid Tuesday that he hopes that the principle of equality enshrined in the Indian Constitution is upheld.

Amit Shah on Monday introduced the contentious bill in Lok Sabha that passed it by a division of votes with 311 in favour and eighty against. Throughout the quite seven-hour-long heated discussion, the Home Minister invoked the Partition and aforesaid that the BJP had to bring the Bill because the Congress had partitioned off the country in 1947 on the basis of religion.

The Opposition attacked the government of violating the essential structure of the Constitution and Articles related with the right to equality and prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion and race, and aforesaid it had been humoring in factious and vote-bank politics and stoking worry within the minds of Muslims.

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