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When the Citizenship Amendment Bill was being debated in Parliament, members belonging to the AIADMK lent their support to the Centre. They echoed the government’s stance that the bill was not against minorities. The Tamil Nadu chief minister said that his government would urge the Centre to give dual citizenship to Sri Lankan refugees. This is impractical.
New Delhi has made it clear that no Indian citizen can hold the citizenship of any other country. When they acquire the citizenship of any foreign nation, they are required to surrender their Indian citizenship. Answering a question posed by Karti Chidambaram in the Lok Sabha on 9 February 2021, the Union minister of state for home affairs provided details of Indians who gave up their Indian passport and took up citizenship of foreign countries. Between 2015 and 2019, they numbered 6,76,074. The reverse is also true. The minuscule number of foreigners who have become Indian citizens had to surrender the cit
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