[Live Updates] : Rajya Sabha Debate On Citizenship Amendment Bill

Various statements of Home Minister Amit Shah, which were made during election campaign and also during Parliament debates, make it clear that #CAB2019 and #NRC are both inter-lined : Javed Ali Khan (SP)

The #CABBill will be written in golden letters, as said by the PM. But where it will be written?. It will be written on the grave of the father of nation. Not the father of nation of India. But on the grave of Jinnah : Derek O Brien

The PM and HM use words like 'vermins', 'termites', 'cockroaches' etc to refer migrants, like Nazis used the word 'rats' to refer to jews. A class of persons is thus dehumanized : Derek O Brien

'There is an eerie similarity between the #CABBill and the citizenship laws passed in Nazi Germany in 1933-34' : Derek O Brien

JP Nadda quotes statement by ex-PM Manmohan Singh in LS in 2003, where he said that it was the moral obligation of India to help religious minorities facing persecution in Pak, Bangladesh. Singh urged the then Dy PM Advani to liberalize grant of citizenship to such persons.

The percentage of minorities in Pakistan reduced from 23% in 1947 to 2% in 2017 : Nadda

Sharma concludes. J P Nadda from BJP speaks in support of the bill.

Referring to Shah's statement on nationwide NRC, Anand Sharma asks 'Will there be nationwide detention centres too?'

Anand Sharma refers to Amit Shah's statement that #CABBill is based on BJP's election manifesto.

'No party's manifesto can go against the Constitution. Getting popular support will not make it constitutional'

Anand Sharma quotes Swami Vivekananda's Chicago speech.

"I am proud to belong to a nation which has sheltered the persecuted people of all religions"