THE CITIZENSHIP QUESTION
Jan 11, 2020
3 minutes
BY FAIZAN MUSTAFA The author is an expert in
constitutional law
as membership of a political community. It was not just a territorial idea but signified a political community’s commitment to certain values. Citizenship is not just the vertical relationship between the State and the people, it is also a horizontal relationship between people. That is why people of all faiths are opposing the exclusion of a particular faith-community from the ambit of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019;
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