New Delhi: Citizenship Amendment Bill passed in Rajya Sabha. There were 125 votes in favor of the bill and 105 against the bill. Now the bill will go to the President and will become part of the law with his approval. Shiv Sena walked out during voting in Rajya Sabha. Earlier the proposal to send the bill to the Select Committee fell. 99 people voted in favor of sending it to the Select Committee, while 124 votes were cast against it. After this, the final voting was done on this bill.
After a nearly day-long debate on the Citizenship Amendment Bill on Wednesday (December 11), Union Home Minister Amit Shah responded during the discussion in the evening. He said that if this bill had come 50 years ago, the situation would not have been so bad. Discussing the bill, he said that the Muslims of India were citizens of the country, and will continue to be so. In the Rajya Sabha, while presenting this bill providing for citizenship of India to non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, the Home Minister said that minorities do not have equal rights in these three countries.
He said that the population of minorities in these countries has decreased by at least 20 percent. Amit Shah said that these migrants did not have employment and education rights. He dismissed the opposition's allegations of vote bank politics behind the bill, saying that the BJP had made an announcement in this regard in its election manifesto.
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