: Indian Muslims will not suffer any loss due to Citizenship Act, claims Mohan Bhagwat #IndiaNEWS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act

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Indian Muslims will not suffer any loss due to Citizenship Act, claims Mohan Bhagwat #IndiaNEWS
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act will not hurt Indian Muslims, reported The Hindu.At the launch of a book titled Citizenship debate over NRC and CAA-Assam and the Politics of History, Bhagwat alleged that a section of people were spinning communal narrative around the CAA and the National Register of Citizens to gain political mileage.The Citizenship Amendment Act, approved by Parliament on December 11, 2019, provides citizenship to refugees from six minority religious communities from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the condition that they have lived in India for six years and entered the country by December 31, 2014. It has been widely criticised for excluding Muslims. It sparked massive protests across the country last year as this was India’s first faith-based law.Critics also feared that, clubbed with the proposed nationwide National Register of Citizens, the CAA would be used as a tool to discriminate against Indian Muslims. If citizens cannot meet the eligibility criteria for NRC, they will lose their citizenship. While Hindus and other communities can use CAA as protection against deportation as it grants citizenship, Muslims are excluded from the same, according to The Indian Express.On Wednesday, speaking at the book launch, Bhagwat said, “Not a single Indian Muslim will face any loss...Read more

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