Question

The Citizen Amendment Act passed by Government of India is related to ?

• A. Part-1 of the Constitution
• B. Part-2 of the Constitution
• C. Part-3 of the Constitution
• D. Part-4 of the Constitution

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Part-2 of the Constitution

Part 2 Constitution of India deals with the Indian Citizenship. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 was passed by the Parliament of India on 11 December 2019. It amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 by providing a pathway to Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis or Christians, and arrived in India before the end of December 2014. The law does not grant such eligibility to Muslims from these Muslim-majority countries.[