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The petitioners see the NGO Assam Public Works, the Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha and others who assertion that mounting a antithetic cut-off day for citizenship successful Assam is “discriminatory, arbitrary and illegal”.
A five-judge Constitution seat of the Supreme Court volition Thursday pronounce its verdict connected whether Section 6A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 — which granted citizenship to immigrants who entered Assam earlier January 1, 1966 — is constitutional.
The proviso was added to the statute successful 1985 pursuing the signing of the Assam Accord betwixt the Rajiv Gandhi authorities astatine the Centre and the All Assam Students’ Union. The accord was a culmination of a six-year-long agitation against the introduction of BangladeshI migrants into Assam.
The verdict is expected to reply important questions regarding the assistance of citizenship to immigrants and the rights of “indigenous” Assamese people.
The petitioners see the NGO Assam Public Works, the Assam Sanmilita Mahasangha and others who assertion that mounting a antithetic cut-off day for citizenship successful Assam is “discriminatory, arbitrary and illegal”. They besides assertion that changing demographics successful the authorities volition impact the rights of indigenous Assamese radical to conserve their civilization nether Article 29 of the Constitution of India.
Their petition, filed successful 2012, states that “the exertion of Section 6A to the State of Assam unsocial has led to a perceptible alteration successful the demographic signifier of the State and has reduced the radical of Assam to a number successful their ain State. The aforesaid is detrimental to the economical and governmental well-being of the State and acts arsenic a potent unit against the taste survival, governmental power and employment opportunities of the people.”
The Centre, connected the different hand, has relied connected Article 11 of the Constitution which gives Parliament the powerfulness “to marque immoderate proviso with respect to the acquisition and termination of citizenship and each different matters relating to citizenship”. Other respondents, including the NGO Citizens for Justice and Peace, argued that if Section 6A is struck down a ample swathe of existent residents volition beryllium rendered “stateless” and beryllium considered foreigners aft enjoying citizenship rights for implicit 50 years.
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