{"id":317601,"date":"2019-12-09T08:50:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=317601"},"modified":"2019-12-09T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T08:50:42","slug":"the-citizenship-amendment-bill-is-not-against-minorities-says-amit-shah-in-lok-sabha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/the-citizenship-amendment-bill-is-not-against-minorities-says-amit-shah-in-lok-sabha\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Citizenship (Amendment) bill is not against minorities\u2019, says Amit Shah in Lok Sabha"},"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-317602 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Amit-Shah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Amit-Shah.jpg 645w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Amit-Shah-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Amit-Shah-518x420.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday tabled the Citizenship (Amendment) bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha, amid objection from the opposition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah said, &#8220;In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh &#8211; Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Buddhists and Parsis were discriminated. Hence, this bill will give these people citizenship. Also, the allegation that this bill will take away the rights of Muslim people is wrong.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This bill is not even .001 per cent against minorities,\u201d Shah said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">No Article of the Constitution has been violated in the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019, Shah added.<\/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 that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan was cleared in a cabinet meeting on December 4.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah said that the Congress divided the country on the basis of religion that is why it was necessary to bring the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several opposition leaders including Shashi Tharoor, Assaduddin Owaisi among others opposed the introduction of the bill.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday tabled the Citizenship (Amendment) bill, 2019 in Lok Sabha, amid objection from the opposition. Amit Shah said, &#8220;In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh &#8211; Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Christians, Buddhists and Parsis were discriminated. Hence, this bill will give these people citizenship. Also, the allegation that this bill will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":317602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194,1760],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601"}],"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=317601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317603,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317601\/revisions\/317603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/317602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}