In Assam, Epicentre Of Anti-CAA Protests, 1st Applicant Gets Citizenship Under Act
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The rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act had been notified in March this year, four years after it was passed.
A state which was the epicentre of the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) has now seen its first resident get citizenship under the legislation.
The rules for the law had been notified in March this year, four years after it was passed, and 50-year-old Dulon Das was one of eight people from Assam who had applied for citizenship under it. After facing atrocities in Bangladesh, Mr Das' family, which resided in Sylhet, had come to Silchar in Assam.
Speaking to reporters, Mr Das, who was a teenager when he came to India, said, "I was asked to visit Guwahati's Regional Passport Office to collect my citizenship certificate. I got a message from the Union Home Ministry on Tuesday,".
