PERCEPTION OF INDIAN CITIZENS ON THE CONCEPT OF CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT

The Citizenship amendment act was came into act on 1955. In 1986 some amendments as been made to CAA and once again in 2003 some amendments as been made. In 2016 once again CAA was presented in parliament for some amendments. The Citizen amendment act is an amendment to the old act, passed by the parliament on 11-12-2019, this amendment provides citizenship to those migrants who have entered India before 31-12-2014 suffered from religious persecution or by the fear of religious persecution in their country of origin were made eligible for Indian citizenship, this is only meant for religious minorities like 1) Hindus, 2) Sikhs, 3) Jains, 4) Parsis, 5) Buddhists and 6) Christians only. According to the available information there are only 31,313 migrants are there. 1) Hindus are 25,447 2) Sikhs 5,807 3) Christians 55, 4) Buddhist 2, 5) Parsis 2. These migrants are from neighboring countries like 1) Pakistan 2) Bangladesh, and 3) Afghanistan. Till today the anti CAA protest as claimed 22 precious lives and it as damaged worth of 25000 Crores of rupees income business and properties. Recently CAA issue has claimed 44 precious lives in Delhi itself and hundreds of Citizens are suffering from grievous injuries. CAA was notified by the Union Government of India on 10-01-2020, now CAA mandatory for all citizens of India. CAA can be question under the article 131 of Indian constitution in the apex court of India. There are nearly 57 writ petitions in the apex court of India question in the CAA. After the notification of CAA apex court of India to question CAA, the court will hear the both sides and gives final judgment. After the judgment CAA must be followed by all 28 states and Union territories of India. At present 13 states are opposing CAA as on 21-01-2020. Objectives of the study: To study the perception of Indian citizens on CAA Hypothesis of the study: There are lot of confusion among the Citizens of India regarding CAA due to communication gap and wrong propaganda on CAA by some peoples and organizations.