CAA: Why is India’s citizenship law contentious?
NEW DELHI, March 13 (Reuters) – India this week implemented the contentious 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), sparking sporadic protests and a war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government and opposition groups weeks before national elections are held. Here is a look at the law, its implications and the concerns surrounding it. WHAT IS THE CAA? The CAA fast-tracks citizenship for persecuted Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to India before Dec. 31, 2014 from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh due to religious persecution. The enactment of the law by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata