New Delhi: The MHA has significantly simplified the process of obtaining citizenship for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Under this, the Collector has been given the right to investigate these people and give them citizenship. This decision of the government is welcomed. At the same time, migrant Hindus living in these countries will be able to get citizenship in India.
DS Gadhvi of Anand district of Gujarat said that we have been given the authority by the MHA to give Indian citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. The process of getting it has been made quite simple.
Tell that to such a person of any age and full capacity, who is a citizen of another country. but was a citizen of India at the time of commencement of the Constitution or at any time thereafter, or who is a citizen of another country, but was eligible to be a citizen of India at the commencement of the Constitution.
In this sequence, the collectors of two districts of Gujarat, Mehsana, and Anand, have been given the right to give citizenship. Explain that the Constitution of India provides for single citizenship. This means that an Indian person can be a citizen of only one country at a time. If a person takes the citizenship of another country, then his Indian citizenship automatically ends. However, this provision does not apply when India is engaged in war.
