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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has claimed that the CAA is completely insignificant in Assam, from where there will be the least number of applications for Indian citizenship.
The Ministry of Home Affairs had earlier launched a portal for people eligible to apply for Indian citizenship under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
CAA is completely insignificant in Assam; the state will have the least number of applications on the portal, Sarma told a press conference.
The Union government had on Monday implemented the CAA, notifying the rules to fast-track citizenship for undocumented non-Muslim migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who came to India before December 31, 2014.
Sarma said the act is very clear that the cut-off date for application of citizenship is December 31, 2014, and in Assam, with the updation of the National Register of Citizens, people who applied for it and did not find their names in that list, will only apply for CAA.
