Latest Citizenship Amendment Act News & Updates

Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, on Tuesday, launched scathing attacks against the Union Home Minister Amit Shah while reacting to the latter’s remarks on infiltration in West Bengal and called him as the “country’s unsuccessful Union Home Minister”. The Trinamool Congress General Secretary left for Delhi on Tuesday afternoon to meet the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to launch protests against the ongoing hearing session…

Kolkata, Dec 30 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah has assured the Matua community that the voting rights of individuals who have submitted applications for citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will be preserved. While speaking to the media in Kolkata, he confirmed that community members who have applied for citizenship will retain their voting rights.“The people from the Matua community have nothing to worry about. Every refugee who has come to India will be treated as a citize…

New Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) As the Congress leader Digvijaya Singh landed in controversy after praising the BJP and its ideological parent – Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said that the grand old party has “lost its mental balance”. The controversy erupted after Digvijaya Singh shared a black-and-white photograph on social media showing Prime Minister Narendra Modi seated on the ground while BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani sat on a chair in th…