- Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have made special efforts for the suffering minorities of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh to get Indian citizenship easily and quickly: MoS
NE NEWS SERVICE
AHMEDABAD, MARCH 15
Eighteen Hindu refugees from Pakistan residing in Ahmedabad were on Saturday conferred Indian citizenship at a camp attended by Gujarat minister of state for home Harsh Sanghavi.
🚌 માનનીય મુખ્યમંત્રી શ્રી @Bhupendrapbjp જીના માર્ગદર્શનથી રાજ્યમાં જાહેર પરિવહનની કરોડરજ્જુ ગણાતી ગુજરાત એસ.ટી. દ્વારા અત્યાધુનિક બસોના નવા કાફલાને લોક સેવામાં રાજ્ય સરકાર વતી અર્પણ કરતા આનંદની લાગણી અનુભવું છું ! pic.twitter.com/kQU3n0nFNs
— Harsh Sanghavi (Modi ka Parivar) (@sanghaviharsh) March 16, 2024
Gazette notifications of 2016 and 2018 empower the district collectors of Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kutch in the state to grant Indian citizenship to people of minority communities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, said an official release.
અફઘાનિસ્તાન, પાકિસ્તાન અને બાંગ્લાદેશથી સ્થળાંતરિત થઇ અમદાવાદમાં નિવાસ કરતા આજે 18 વ્યક્તિઓને ગૃહરાજયમંત્રી શ્રી હર્ષ સંઘવીના હસ્તે ભારતીય નાગરિકતા પ્રમાણપત્ર એનાયત કરાયા.@CMOGuj @sanghaviharsh pic.twitter.com/Rc36e53zeo
— Ahmedabad Collector (@CollectorAhd) March 16, 2024
With this, a total of 1167 Hindu refugees from Pakistan residing in Ahmedabad district have so far been granted Indian citizenship, it added.
At the camp organised at the district collector’s office, Sanghavi conferred Indian citizenship to the migrants and urged them to work together to realise the dream of a new India.
“It is expected that all of you will be determined to participate in the development journey of the country,” he said, adding the Central and state governments were committed to bringing all those who have obtained Indian citizenship to the mainstream of the society.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have made special efforts for the suffering minorities of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh to get Indian citizenship easily and quickly, he said.
Incidentally, on March 11, the Union government announced the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, paving the way for citizenship to undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
With this, the Modi government will now start granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants — Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and Christians — from the three countries.
