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Citizenship Act: AIMIM will fight legislation, plea filed, says Owaisi

AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said he has filed a Public Interest Litigation in the Supreme Court, challenging the Citizenship Amendment Act. I have filed a PIL before the SC challenging the #CAA @aimim_national will fight this battle to preserve a plural, secular constitutional democracy in Bharat. This fight will be before every possible forum & using every constitutional tool available to us," he tweeted. Owaisi had on Monday last attacked the Union government in the Lok Sabha over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, saying it was aimed at making Muslims "stateless" and would lead to another partition. Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, Owaisi had said he was called Mahatma after he tore the discriminatory citizenship card in South Africa The Hyderabad MP had then torn the copy of the bill to highlight his protest, inviting sharp reactions from the treasury benches, which described his act an "insult" to Parliament. The Act is an insult to India's ...

Violence over Citizenship Amendment Act continues unabated in West Bengal

15 buses were torched on the Kona Expressway and many other vehicles ransacked across various parts of southern West Bengal

Citizenship Act: Assam civil society organisations set to move SC

The Forum Against Citizenship Act Amendment Bill (FACAAB) and Asom Nagarik Samaj (ANS) said they are preparing the papers to will move the apex court soon

Citizenship Act: Protests rock Bengal, CM Mamata appeals for peace

At Krishnapur station in Murshidabad district a number of empty trains were set on fire, besides railway tracks at Lalgola station, which they also ransacked

Congress stoking violence over amended Citizenship Act, says Amit Shah

The BJP president assured the people of the Northeast that their culture, language, social identity and political rights will be not be affected by the Act

Citizenship Act: Railways runs special trains for those stranded in Assam

Special passenger trains are being run in Guwahati to reach their destination in upper Assam

RJD calls for Bihar bandh on December 21 to protest Citizenship Act

The Citizenship Act is a black legislation that has blown the Constitution to smithereens, RJD said

Normal life hit in parts of Nagaland in shutdown against citizenship law

No untoward incident has been reported so far from the Naga inhabited areas where the shutdown began at 6 am

Citizenship law protests: Curfew eased in Guwahati from 9 am to 4 pm

Long queues were seen outside shops at several places, including Dispur, Uzan Bazar, Chandmari, Silpukhuri and Zoo Road

India must honour religious freedom, says US about Citizenship law

'We hope the government will abide by its constitutional commitments, Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, said in a tweet

States have no powers to reject Citizenship Act: Home Ministry official

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was one of the CMs to reject the law

Violence threatens Assam energy economy; oil fields, gas supply impacted

Supply to refineries, chemical and fertiliser industries in the region may be affected

Japanese PM cancels visit to India as violence rages over Citizenship Act

Amit Shah's visit to Shillong and Arunachal also stands cancelled

Combinative vs exclusive preferences

'From a purely legal and constitutional point of view the new citizenship law is fine', says the author

CM surrendered before Delhi: AASU vows to continue 'non-violent movement'

Chief Adviser of AASU Samujjal Kumar Bhattachaya also claimed that President Ram Nath Kovind has "violated the Constitution" by giving assent to the "communal bill", which was passed by the Parliament

Decoding CAB

What the Citizenship Amendment Bill is intended to do and who it is intended for is unclear

Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind says it will challenge Citizenship Amendment Bill in SC

Madani said that the Jamiat will challenge it in the court because the legislature has not done its job honestly

Citizenship Amendment Bill is a bid to fashion an ethnic democracy

The Modi govt is fashioning something much more than an electoral strategy; a system that is democratic but also majoritarian

Citizenship Amendment Bill likely to be introduced in Lok Sabha on Dec 9

The contentious Bill is set to be tabled next week in the Parliament.

Citizenship (Amendment) Bill gets green light, discussion likely next week

The Bill aims to provide citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan