Lucknow: The exercise to mark migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh has started under the Citizenship Amendment Act, which has been going on for the last several days. Uttar Pradesh is the first state to initiate action towards granting citizenship to migrants. The state government has asked all the district magistrates to identify such migrants and prepare a list of them. They will also be identified under this exercise, are living illegally in the state.

According to information received from sources, it has been learned that the state's Additional Chief Secretary, Home Avnish Kumar Awasthi said that the District Magistrate of all the districts has been instructed to identify the migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Having lived here for decades without citizenship. At the same time, he said that the purpose of preparing the list is to ensure that with the intervention of the state government, it can be ensured that the real migrants are getting citizenship of the country. With this, they will be able to become citizens of the country. This is the first time such a list is being made. The government will also inform the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on illegal Muslim migrants in the state.

For your information, let us tell you that the Additional Chief Secretary said that according to the information so far, there are more number of migrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh in Lucknow, Hapur, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Noida and Ghaziabad. It is known that the citizenship law has been widely opposed in Uttar Pradesh and 28 people have died in violent demonstrations. The protesters allege that Muslims living in India are being targeted under the cover of the Citizenship Amendment Act.

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