Citizenship Bill, the day after and a day before

    • Publish Date: Dec 11 2019 11:36AM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 11 2019 11:36AM
Citizenship Bill, the day after and a day before

  • The big day: The contentious Citizenship Amendment Bill is likely to be introduced in the Rajya Sabha today. The bill was passed in the Lok Sabha late Monday night. The NDA has 105 MPs in the Upper House and is likely to get the support of another 22 members from AIADMK (11), BJD (7), YSRCP (2) and TDP (2) taking its numbers to 127, well past the majority mark of 120.
  • The politics: A day after voting to pass the bill in the Lok Sabha, Shiv Sena said that its support to the bill in the Rajya Sabha is not a given as many of its “queries have not been answered.'' Two senior leaders of JD(U), a BJP ally in Bihar, questioned the party's decision to back the bill saying it was discriminatory.
  • The protests: A 11-hour bandh called by the North-East Students’ Organisation (NESO), an umbrella body of influential students’ bodies of the region, against the CAB, hit normal life in the Northeast. Schools, shops and markets remained closed in many areas of the region. Agitators clashed with security forces and train services were affected in Assam while the Tripura government suspended SMS and mobile internet connectivity for 48-hours.
  • Unwanted attention: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, a commission of the US government, said on Tuesday that the US government should consider sanctions against Amit Shah if the Bill is passed by the Upper House too. India termed the reaction as “neither accurate nor warranted.” Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan pitched in with a tweet saying the bill "violates all norms of international human rights law and bilateral agreements with Pakistan."

In neighbouring Bangladesh, meanwhile, the military has started erecting fences around camps housing lakhs of Rohingya refugees despite complaints from community leaders and rights groups, reports news agency AFP. Frustration has been growing in Bangladesh about hosting the refugees, particularly since the latest attempt to repatriate them to Myanmar failed in August.

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