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Bangladeshi Applicants Under India’s CAA to Get Citizenship Within Six Months, Amit Shah Says
23 August 2026 00:08 AM
NEWS DESK
Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has said that people who came to India from Bangladesh fleeing alleged religious persecution and have applied for citizenship under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will receive Indian citizenship within the next six months.
Speaking at a public rally in Siliguri, West Bengal, Shah said Hindu, Sikh and Jain refugees from Bangladesh would be granted citizenship within six months.
“This is my promise,” Shah said, adding that the Union Home Ministry was coordinating with the state administration and that officials had been given the necessary authority to process the applications.
Shah also said the Union Home Ministry had authorised the district collectors of eight districts in West Bengal to grant citizenship to eligible applicants under the CAA.
He assured refugees that they would be granted Indian citizenship “with dignity.”
According to The Times of India, the Union Home Ministry had earlier, on Wednesday, authorised district collectors in eight border states and Union territories to process pending citizenship applications under the CAA.
Shah also criticised the Trinamool Congress and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over their opposition to the legislation.
“When we brought the CAA, she mocked me,” Shah said. “Mamata Didi, you refused to implement this law, but you and your government have now been forced to give up that authority.”
He also warned that the state government would identify and deport what he described as “infiltrators” from West Bengal.
The CAA, enacted by India in 2019, provides a pathway to Indian citizenship for certain members of Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan who entered India on or before December 31, 2014, subject to eligibility requirements.
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