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Controversial CAA is ready with its rules, when General Elections are right around the corner in India

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3 mn readIf reports are to be believed, rules under Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) is ready to be notified before 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. Ever since the Act was passed at the end of 2019, it was under work due to extension of rules. The Act was passed on 10 December 2019 in Lok Sabha and days later in Rajya Sabha, after it was introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the Upper House. The Act has been surrounded by controversies from the time it was out there. Described by The Wire, ‘The Act aims to provide citizenship to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians purportedly fleeing persecution from India’s Muslim-majority neighbors; namely Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh’.