Explainer: Citizenship Act And What India Needs To Know About Protests In Assam   

The controversial Citizenship Act has snowballed into a major controversy with Opposition leaders rejecting the Act calling it unconstitutional. In Assam, the fight is more sentimental - to save the indigenous Assamese people and their culture and not let illegal immigrants, irrespective of religion, be granted citizenship in India. Here’s an explainer to the whole contentious Act.

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