With reference to the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 consider the following statements 1 The act see...........

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With reference to the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019, consider the following statements:

1,The act seeks to grant Indian Citizenship to persons belonging to all communities who have migrated to India after facing persecution on grounds of religion in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.

2. The provisions of the amendments to the Act would not apply to tribal area of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram or Tripura as included in the Sixth Schedule to the Constitution.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 only

2 only

Both

None

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Explanation:

The Act has amended the Citizenship Act, 1955 to give eligibility for Indian citizenship to persecuted minorities who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and who entered India on or before 31 December 2014. The Act does not mention Muslims.
The act makes illegal migrants eligible for citizenship on the basis of religion – a move that may violate Article 14 of the Indian Constitution, which guarantees right to equality.
It is not clear why migrants from these countries are differentiated from migrants from other neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
There has been a strong resistance to the Bill in North east esp. Assam who fear it would pave the way for granting citizenship mostly to illegal Hindu migrants from Bangladesh, who came after March 1971, in violation of the 1985 Assam Accord. Hence only statement 2 is correct.