83 Hindus from Pakistan get Indian citizenship in Gujarat
December 14, 2018
Ahmedabad:Altogether 83 Hindus who had migrated from Pakistan were today given Indian citizenship certificate here today.
The Certificates were distributed by local MLA Balram Thawani and collector Vikrant Pandey in a related camp in collector’s office.
Pandey said that the certificates were distributed as per the provisions of the Citizenship Act. He said that in 2016 special powers were given to the collectors of three districts Kutch, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar by the center to confer Indian citizenship to people of minority Hindu and other communities migrated from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
He said that so far a total of 419 such people have got Indian citizenship in Ahmedabad in the last two years which was a record of sorts for any one district across the country.
Most of those who got citizenship today had come to India from Sindh province of Pakistan and were from Sindhi community.
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