The state government’s move raises several questions because the central government has not yet notified rules for the implementation of the CAA. NDTV spoke to officials in the district administration, who said they started surveying people last month on the basis of an unsigned and undated document. The new citizenship law seeks to grant citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Several people included in the list told NDTV that they were only asked to show their Aadhaar card by the government representatives and not any migration proof. In an interview to HuffPost India’s Betwa Sharma, minister Shrikant Sharma said that the Uttar Pradesh government started working on the list from long back — as soon as Parliament passed the Bill.

Source: Huffington Post January 16, 2020 13:41 UTC