• The Mizoram Assembly   unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016

• The Bill introduced in the Lok Sabha to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, proposes to make illegal migrants of six communities  Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians eligible for Indian citizenship after six years of residence in the country.

• The resolution impressed upon the Centre that the Bill if enacted, would be harmful to States like Mizoram where a large number of illegal Buddhist migrants from Bangladesh reside.

• The Bill, seeking to make illegal migrants eligible for Indian citizenship on the basis of religion, was against the principles of secularism and “amounted to patronage of some religions”.

The Hindu