The BJP has maintained that the Centre’s recent order to grant residential status to non-Muslim with invalid travel documents from neighbouring countries couldn’t have been better timed, even as the opposition perceived it to be a strategy to prevent the party’s apple cart from getting upset in poll-bound states of the east.
Interpretations of the order across the political spectrum ranged from being the first step towards granting citizenship to persecuted Hindus who crossed over from Bangladesh in recent times to a recipe for a civil war among communities.
As per the exemption order, persons belonging to minority communities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who sought shelter in India on grounds of religious persecution on or before December 31, 2024 without valid travel documents, would not be prosecuted under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025.
Enforced on September 1, the law mandates creation of a Bureau of
​The BJP has maintained that the Centre’s recent order to grant residential status to non-Muslim with invalid travel documents from neighbouring countries couldn’t have been better timed, even as the opposition perceived it to be a strategy to prevent the party’s apple cart from getting upset in poll-bound states of the east.
Interpretations of the order across the political spectrum ranged from being the first step towards granting citizenship to persecuted Hindus who crossed over from Bangladesh in recent times to a recipe for a civil war among communities.
As per the exemption order, persons belonging to minority communities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians who sought shelter in India on grounds of religious persecution on or before December 31, 2024 without valid travel documents, would not be prosecuted under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025.
Enforced on September 1, the law mandates creation of a Bureau ofÂ
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