Union minister and West Bengal MP Shantanu Thakur on Saturday mentioned that he’ll “apply for citizenship” underneath the Citizenship Modification Act to counter the “false propaganda” in opposition to it by the Trinamool Congress, India At this time reported.
“One can apply for citizenship by taking a personality certificates or associated papers from any registered social organisation,” the Union Minister of State for Ports, Transport and Waterways mentioned. “I can even apply for citizenship, though my great-grandmother took citizenship by way of migration and I don’t want to use.”
The Act goals to fast-track citizenship for undocumented migrants from six minority spiritual communities, besides Muslims, from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan, on the situation that they’ve lived in India for six years and had entered the nation by December 31, 2014. The Centre notified the foundations underneath the Act on March 11.
Hours after the foundations had been notified, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had mentioned that if people had been despatched to detention camps within the title of the Citizenship Modification Act, the Trinamool Congress would “cease that ploy”.
The Trinamool Congress has contended that those that apply for citizenship afresh underneath the Citizenship Modification Act would develop into ineligible for Aadhaar-linked welfare schemes, and that their present identification paperwork would develop into ineffective, The Occasions of India reported.
On Saturday, Thakur, whose ancestors hailed from Bangladesh, mentioned that he would apply underneath the Citizenship Modification Act to counter the propaganda in opposition to it by the Trinamool Congress. “I wish to see if I could be disadvantaged of services after being utilized for citizenship,” he added.
Commenting on his assertion, West Bengal minister Chandrima Bhattacharya mentioned: “We’re ready when Shantanu Thakur will apply as a result of as quickly as he applies, his ministership goes as he’s now not a citizen of India.”