Essay on CAA
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Essay on CAA:
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 approved by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It altered the Citizenship Act of 1955 by offering a path to fast track Indian citizenship for illegal migrants of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian religious minorities, who had fled harassment from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014.
Muslims from those countries were not given such admissibility, as those are Muslim bulk states.
The passage of the legislation instigated large-scale protests in India. Assam and other northeastern states have seen violent protests against the bill over fears that granting Indian citizenship to refugees and settlers will cause a loss of their "political rights, culture and land rights.