Will deport those who came after 2015, says Assam CM on CAA
Guwahati: Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said that the state government will deport all those migrants who came to India after 2015.
Providing an update on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) implementation, the Assam CM stated that one or two people have registered under the new citizenship act.
“We will deport those who have come after 2015. Only two persons have applied so far who came before 2015. Out of five applications, three were not present in the hearing and only two have applied for CAA,” Sarma said at a press conference.
Based on the rules of the Citizenship Amendment Act, migrants belonging to six religious minorities — Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian from neighbouring countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in India as citizens if they entered the country before December 31, 2014.
Referring to this, Sarma said that anyone who has entered India in 2015 and after will be deported back to their country of origin.
The Assam Chief Minister's statement comes after he stated that the controversial citizenship act will be “completely insignificant” in Assam due to a low number of applications.