Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma and Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga on Friday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to urge the Centre to scrap the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Lok Sabha had passed the controversial bill on January 8.
The bill seeks to amend the Citizenship Act of 1955 in order to grant citizenship to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Bangladesh, Afghanistan and Pakistan if they have lived in India for six years, even if they do not possess the necessary documents.