The Congress party asserted that this legislation stirred controversy due to its departure from the constitutional principle that citizenship should not be determined by religion
Notably, thousands of Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan and Afghanistan reside in the national capital.
The Centre had on Monday implemented the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which provides an accelerated pathway for citizenship of illegal migrants who are Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist, and Christian from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, and who entered India before 2014, following the religious persecutions.
