NON-MUSLIM MIGRANTS HAVE NOWHERE TO GO, INDIA SAYS THEY SHOULD GET CITIZENSHIP

India wants to give citizenship to immigrants belonging to religious minorities persecuted in neighboring Muslim countries, including Pakistan, because they have nowhere go except India, the interior minister verbalized on Tuesday.

Reprovers have called the proposal, contained in a Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, limpidly and conspicuously anti-Muslim and an endeavor by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to boost its Hindu voter base ahead of a general election due by May.

The bill seeks to give citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Parsis from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh, who came to India before Dec. 31, 2014.

“They have no place to go except India,” Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament. “The beneficiaries of the bill can reside in any state of the country.”

But there is consequential opposition to the proposal, in particular from the northeastern state of Assam, where denizens have for years repined that immigrants from Bangladesh have put an astronomically immense strain on resources.

But Singh endeavored to reassure Assam it would not have to bear any encumbrance alone.

“The encumbrance of those persecuted migrants will be shared by the whole country. Assam alone should not have to bear the entire burden,” he verbalized.

Members of religious minorities often face discrimination and sometimes violence at the hands of militant members of Muslim majorities, concretely in Pakistan and Afghanistan.