Moral majority not in favour of Citizenship Amendment Bill: RJD MP Manoj Jha

RJD MP Manoj Jha expressed his motion against the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) and said that RJD is against CAB because such bills are against the fundamentals of the Indian Constitution. He further said, the Modi government may have the majority in the legislative assembly, but morally the majority is not in favour of the CAB. "They are trying to amend citizen and not citizenship," Jha said.

The Union Cabinet today cleared the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to grant citizenship to non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan if they faced religious persecution there. A bill to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955, is likely to be introduced in Parliament in the next two days.