{"id":504385,"date":"2024-03-11T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504385"},"modified":"2024-04-16T18:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T13:03:38","slug":"caa-lok-sabha-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/caa-lok-sabha-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahead of Lok Sabha elections 2024, Modi govt notifies CAA\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Citizenship Amendment Act came into effect on Monday, according to a statement released by the government. The CAA, which for the first time makes religion a citizenship test, was approved by Parliament in December 2019 amidst violent protests that claimed over 100 lives and strong opposition from states that are not part of the BJP and opposition lawmakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CAA guidelines have been notified by the ministry of home affairs, opening the door for the law&#8217;s nationwide implementation. The law facilitates the process of obtaining Indian citizenship for refugees who are Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian, and Parsi, and who are from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for the Union Home Ministry said eligible individuals could submit citizenship applications in a completely online mode, for which a web portal has been provided. One official stated that no more paperwork will be required from the applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will be notifying today, the Rules under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA-2019). These rules, called the Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 will enable the persons eligible under CAA-2019 to apply for grant of Indian citizenship. (1\/2)<\/p>&mdash; Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs (@PIBHomeAffairs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIBHomeAffairs\/status\/1767173421727711374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just weeks before the 2024 Lok Sabha election, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#8217;s party will contest for a third consecutive term, the Citizenship Act is being implemented. This is a significant campaign platform for the ruling BJP in the 2019 national election and other state polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comes&nbsp;weeks after Union Home Minister Amit Shah promised that the law would be come into effect ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. CAA is an act of the country. It will definitely be notified. CAA will come into effect before the election and nobody should be confused about this, Shah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goal of the bill is to grant\u00a0citizenship to non-Muslim\u00a0migrants from these nations who arrived in India before to December 31, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Protests had started in several parts of the nation when the bill was passed in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, on Thursday, West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo\u00a0Mamata Banerjee\u00a0said\u00a0that her government would not permit the state to execute the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) or the National Register of Citizens (NRC).<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes weeks after union home minister Amit Shah declared that the law would be implemented before the Lok Sabha elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[162562,1497,125714],"tags":[85578,85102,146371,93881],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11184943\/ezgif-1-b8fae41430-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504385"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504385"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->