AIMIM leader and Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi has said that the Citizenship Amendment Bill will make India Israel which is known for discrimination.

Owaisi told news agency ANI, "The Citizenship Amendment Bill shows that they want to make India a religious country. India will come into the ranks of countries like Israel which is the most discriminatory country in the world.

Owaisi also said that this law violates Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India because it will end citizenship on the basis of religion.

In India, the bill has been approved by the Union Cabinet on Wednesday and it is likely that it will be introduced in Parliament next week.

The Bill provides for Indian citizenship to people from Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian communities who have come to India from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh for asylum. But Muslim community refugees will not be granted citizenship.

This bill is being opposed by many political parties including the main opposition party of India, Congress, which can try to stop this bill by petitioning the Supreme Court of India because it can be passed easily in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. There is a possibility.

The bill is being strongly opposed in the North-Eastern states of India. The BJP's ally, the Asom Gana Parishad, is opposing the bill. States of the North-East fear that after the introduction of this bill, the population of Bangladeshi Hindu refugees will increase and its native population will become minority.

The immediate objective of bringing this bill is to give citizenship to the Hindu population (about 13 lakhs) who lost their citizenship in the NRC in Assam. But this bill will not give citizenship to the Muslim population (about 5 lakh) who lost their citizenship in NRC in Assam. This bill favors religious grounds.

Political analysts believe that the real motive for bringing this bill by the Modi government is pre-preparation for bringing NRC. So that Muslim population lost their citizenship in NRC cannot get citizenship of India. But if the citizens of Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi and Christian communities lose their citizenship in NRC, then they will get citizenship of India under the provisions of this bill. This is the real game plan of Modi government so that India can be made a Hindu nation.

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