India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law
It may be trying to please its base shortly before a general election
Narendra Modi prides himself on getting things done. Yet when it came to implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), a campaign pledge of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his government dragged its feet. The rules for implementing the law, which offers persecuted religious minorities from some neighbouring countries an accelerated route to Indian citizenship, were published on March 11th, four years after it passed parliament.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “A controversy over citizenship”
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