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The problem is many have been living for generations without any documentation. How are they supposed to prove?

As clearly said before, If one is living in India for more than 11 years, under CAB they will be considered as Indian citizens.

It seems to be pretty much aimed at reducing muslim citizenship, because of how it treats people from different religions and the clear preference for hindu in the government. Do you any response for that? It seems analogous to the us muslim ban.

If a section of society "A" that is oppressed by "B" is being helped by government how is that illogical ? For some reason if that section "A" are Hindus suddenly people claim that to be anti-muslim. Hindus in neighboring counties have no place to go, government of India made that simpler for them to get citizenship because of bad behavior of prominent religions in those counties.

When there's a dominant group (A) that makes laws to help itself because it feels under threat against a much weaker group (B), it's pretty easy to see that A did an unfair and unreasonable thing. In the US this is the current party in power making laws against immigration of Muslims and claiming the 'other' is illegitimate, in India, it is?

There are examples of people living in the UK for long enough to be entitled to British citizenship, yet denied it and threatened with deportation because they cannot prove it.

I do not know if that is a reasonable fear in this case because I do not know the general social attitudes in India right now, but how would you relax someone who is scared the same may happen again?

Govt itself is denying their own Identifying cards and documents, how can anyone prove that they've lived for 12yrs?

And how do you prove that? And after proving, what is the guarantee that it is going to be remembered? What is the guarantee that after it is remembered once, it will be kept that way?

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed's nephew was left out of the NRC for the second time. We can't even get our electoral rolls correct repeatedly; people who have voted from the same area for 40+ years are left out mysteriously.

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