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Bharatiya Janata Party · 2019
दावा
संदर्भ अधूरा
डिलीवरी
पूरा हुआ
क़ानून तेज़ी से पारित हुआ और चार साल से अधिक समय तक उसका उपयोग नहीं हो सका। नागरिकता (संशोधन) अधिनियम, 2019 को वादे के आठ महीने बाद 12 दिसंबर 2019 को स्वीकृति मिली और वह 10 जनवरी 2020 से लागू हुआ। पर नियमों के बिना कोई आवेदन नहीं कर सकता था। अगस्त 2021 में गृह मंत्रालय ने राज्यसभा को बताया कि नियम बनाने के लिए उसने एक विस्तार लिया है और दूसरा माँगा है, और पात्र व्यक्ति ‘उपयुक्त नियम अधिसूचित होने के बाद’ आवेदन कर सकते हैं। नियम 11 मार्च 2024 को अधिसूचित हुए, और पहले प्रमाणपत्र — दिल्ली में 14 — 15 मई 2024 को जारी हुए।
“नागरिकता संशोधन विधेयक — पड़ोसी देशों में उत्पीड़न से भाग रहे धार्मिक अल्पसंख्यक समुदायों के व्यक्तियों की सुरक्षा के लिए हम नागरिकता संशोधन विधेयक को अधिनियमित करने के लिए प्रतिबद्ध हैं। पूर्वोत्तर राज्यों की जिन आबादियों ने इस विधान पर आशंकाएँ व्यक्त की हैं, उन्हें मुद्दे स्पष्ट करने के हरसंभव प्रयास हम करेंगे… भारत के पड़ोसी देशों में उत्पीड़न से भाग रहे हिंदुओं, जैनों, बौद्धों, सिखों और ईसाइयों को भारत में नागरिकता दी जाएगी।”कोई कैग निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं
इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई है। लेखापरीक्षा का न होना इस बात का प्रमाण नहीं है कि दावा सही है या ग़लत।
नागरिकता प्रदान करना कोई लेखापरीक्षित व्यय कार्यक्रम नहीं है; कोई कैग रिपोर्ट इस दावे पर लागू नहीं होती।
कोई लेखापरीक्षा अवधि नहीं — इस योजना पर कैग की कोई निष्पादन लेखापरीक्षा प्रकाशित नहीं हुई।
Rules notified 11 March 2024; first 14 citizenship certificates issued 15 May 2024
उसके बाद अधिनियम के अंतर्गत दी गई नागरिकता का कोई संचयी आँकड़ा गृह मंत्रालय द्वारा प्रकाशित हमें नहीं मिला। यह प्रविष्टि केवल वही दर्ज करती है जो सरकार ने स्वयं कहा है।
First set of citizenship certificates after notification of Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 issued — Press Information Bureau release 2020671
The promise was to enact the Citizenship Amendment Bill, and it was enacted. The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 received the President's assent on 12 December 2019 — eight months after the manifesto — and the government brought it into force on 10 January 2020. On the promise as written, this is delivered.
What a reader is owed alongside that is the gap between the Act coming into force and the Act doing anything.
Section 1(2) of the Act says it comes into force on a date the government notifies; the substantive machinery, however, depended on rules the government had to frame. It did not frame them. In August 2021, twenty months after commencement, the Ministry of Home Affairs told the Rajya Sabha that the Committee on Subordinate Legislation of the Lok Sabha "has granted extension of time up to 09 October, 2021 to frame the rules", that the Rajya Sabha committee "has been requested to grant extension of time upto 09.01.2022", and that eligible persons "may submit applications for grant of citizenship under this Amendment Act after appropriate rules are notified by the Central Government." In plain terms: the law existed, and no one could use it.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Rules were notified on 11 March 2024, four years and two months after the Act commenced and weeks before the general election was announced. The first certificates followed on 15 May 2024, when the Empowered Committee in Delhi granted citizenship to 14 applicants.
Fourteen people, in the term's final month, is what the government itself reports as the first fruit of the promise. No cumulative figure since then appears in any document we hold, so we do not offer one.
Three further points of accuracy about the promise's own wording.
The manifesto says citizenship will go to people escaping persecution "from India's neighbouring countries". The Act is narrower: Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan only. Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan and China are neighbours and are not covered — which matters most for Sri Lankan Tamil and Rohingya refugees, who are in India in large numbers.
The manifesto lists "Hindus, Jains, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians". The Act adds Parsis, and the list in both is a list of religions, which is the feature that has been litigated ever since.
And on the Northeast: the manifesto promised to "make all efforts to clarify the issues to the sections of population from the Northeastern states who have expressed apprehensions". The Act as passed exempts the Sixth Schedule tribal areas of Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura and the states under the Inner Line Permit regime, which is a structural answer to those apprehensions rather than a clarification of them. Large protests followed enactment in Assam and elsewhere regardless.
Delivered on the enactment; recorded as lacking context because "enacted" and "in operation" were separated by more than four years, and the promise's second sentence — that people "will be given citizenship in India" — had produced fourteen certificates by the end of the term.
BJP Sankalp Patra 2019 — Lok Sabha election manifesto
“Through this Sankalp Patra, you would get a glimpse of the challenges of the yesteryears, the indomitable efforts made by 130 crore Indians to overcome those challenges and our collective vision for the future… There are two commitments that I am extremely passionate about — doubling of farmer income and housing for all, by the year 2022.”
The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (No. 47 of 2019) — Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II Section 1
“The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 12th December, 2019… 1. (2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. In the Citizenship Act, 1955… in section 2, in sub-section (1), in clause (b), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:— 'Provided that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st day of December, 2014 and who has been exempted by the Central Government by or under clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Passport (Entry into India) Act, 1920 or from the application of the provisions of the Foreigners Act, 1946 or any rule or order made thereunder, shall not be treated as illegal migrant for the purposes of this Act;'.”
Rajya Sabha Unstarred Question No. 2590, Application for Indian Citizenship — answer by the Ministry of Home Affairs
“(a) to (d): The Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) has been notified on 12.12.2019 and has come into force w.e.f. 10.01.2020. The Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Lok Sabha has granted extension of time up to 09 October, 2021 to frame the rules under the CAA. The Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Rajya Sabha has been requested to grant extension of time upto 09.01.2022 to frame these rules. Eligible persons covered under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 may submit applications for grant of citizenship under this Amendment Act after appropriate rules are notified by the Central Government. No proposal to extend the deadline is under consideration at present.”
First set of citizenship certificates after notification of Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 issued — Press Information Bureau release 2020671
“The first set of citizenship certificates after notification of Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 were issued today. Union Home Secretary Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla handed over citizenship certificates to some applicants in New Delhi today… The Government of India had notified Citizenship (Amendment) Rules, 2024 on 11th March 2024. The Rules envisage manner of application form, procedure for processing applications by District Level Committee (DLC) and scrutiny and grant of citizenship by State Level Empowered Committee (EC)… The Empowered Committee, Delhi headed by Director (Census Operation), Delhi, after due scrutiny, have decided to grant citizenship to 14 applicants. Accordingly, Director (Census operation) granted certificates to these applicants.”