The Citizenship Amendment Bill was taken up by the Lok Sabha and passed close to midnight on 9 December with 311 ayes and 80 noes.
For those who followed the parliamentary proceedings will agree that rarely have we seen the Parliament work so late into the midnight, as it did on the 9 December, to clear the Bill that could not be cleared in Narendra Modi’s first term. But despite long hours in the Lower House, members of the Lok Sabha failed to see the ramifications of clearing such a controversial Bill.