{"id":317505,"date":"2019-12-04T06:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317505"},"modified":"2019-12-04T06:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T06:50:55","slug":"union-cabinet-clears-citizenship-amendment-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-cabinet-clears-citizenship-amendment-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Union cabinet clears Citizenship (Amendment) Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-317506 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unoin-cabinet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"692\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/unoin-cabinet.jpg 692w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/unoin-cabinet-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/unoin-cabinet-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/unoin-cabinet-590x420.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/>The Citizenship Amendment Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan was cleared in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the three neighbouring countries were essentially Islamic nations and so it is non-Muslims and not Muslims who are at the receiving end of religious persecution there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955 is likely to be taken up in the Parliament next week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP MPs have been asked to be present in large numbers in parliament when Home Minister Amit Shah tables the Citizenship bill in parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Citizenship Amendment Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan was cleared in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday morning. Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said that the three neighbouring countries were essentially Islamic nations and so it is non-Muslims and not Muslims who are at the receiving end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1760,4477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317507,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317505\/revisions\/317507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}