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Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president J P Nadda during the BJP’s Sankalp Patra Launch event at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on April 14, 2024. | Photo Credit: R.V. Moorthy The BJP has dropped compilation of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) from its manifesto that ...

With its focus on a roadmap for “Viksit Bharat”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the BJP’s manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. “The entire country waits for the BJP’s ‘Sankalp Patra’. There is a big reason behind it as in the last 10 years, the BJP has implemented ...

The indigenous people of Assam can “never accept” the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which will be a critical issue in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, asserted Dibrugarh Parliamentary constituency's Opposition candidate Lurinjyoti Gogoi, also the president of Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP).“The illegal influx of foreigners has been a long-standing ...

Union Minister and Matua leader Shantanu Thakur believes that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will safeguard those belonging to the community by granting them "legal citizenship", thus preventing them from being labelled as foreigners in the event of "a potential National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise in the next ...

CM Vijayan said that the Congress failed to raise protests when the Centre abrogated Article 370 and alleged that Congress is willing to compromise its values for votes. Published Date - 6 April 2024, 12:24 PM File photo Alappuzha: In a sharp attack on the ...

Voting is often the only chance that many of India's marginalised groups get to express themselves. As national elections approach, Scroll's reporters fanned out across the country to talk to groups with little socio-political power as part of a series called the View from the Margins. The aim: try ...

An MP of the National People’s Party, Agatha Sangma. File | Photo Credit: PTI Agatha K. Sangma, the incumbent Lok Sabha MP and National People's Party candidate for Tura, on April 05 said she supported the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Parliament because Meghalaya was exempted from its provisions.Despite ...

The new rules released on March 11 that guide the implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019, reflect a legal culture that is patently unconstitutional, is riddled with inherent contradictions and violates India’s commitments to international human rights law.The act offers a fast track to Indian citizenship for members ...

“The ethnic cleansing of Rohingya started in 2012 but at that time, not much of it was reported. So my family and I took asylum in India,” he said.The Rohingya community in India lives in a precarious situation, often encountering suspicion and harassment from police and residents. In 2021, ...

KOLKATA: The All India Matua Mahasangha has asked the Centre to amend the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) so that recognised religious organisations can certify the authenticity of applicants given the difficulties faced by a large number of refugees from Bangladesh who don’t have official identity documents ...