A correspondent
Silchar: After the elder brother, the younger one had now also got the citizenship through CAA. This was the second case of awarding citizenship through CAA in Assam and both the persons were the residents of Silchar. Advocate Dharmananda Deb, who helped the siblings receive the much coveted citizenship of the country they had been staying for last 36 years, said, on Wednesday evening the CAA portal had flashed the name of the younger brother and the citizenship certificate had also been uploaded. However, both of them strictly refused to disclose their identities. Deb said, both of them were drivers and their surname was ‘Das’.
The family entered Assam in 1986 and since then they had been staying in Silchar. Members of the family had all the requisite documents like Aadhaar, PAN, voter cards, except the citizenship. CAA comes to the family as a God sent opportunity as the elder brother first applied for citizenship after the rules of the controversial amendment of the Act was officially framed in March 2024. Deb said, they had a document of land in Bangladesh as their father purchased a plot from one Abdur Rouf at Baragram in Sylhet’s Biyanibazar in 1983. The brothers stapled the document with their application for citizenship through the CAA along with certificate from Kanchakanti Kali Mandir affirming their Hindu identity. The younger brother applied on September 6, 2024 through CAA portal and within five months the Home Ministry granted him citizenship that too since 1988, the day they entered India.
Dharmananda Deb, the Silchar based advocate had been active in facilitating citizenship to the displaced Hindus who had crossed the border prior to 2014. “Till now 13 persons have applied through the CAA and now two had already been granted citizenship by the Home Ministry. This would encourage a few more to seek citizenship through the CAA who are afraid of applying fearing that this may invite further trouble for them,” Dev maintained.
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