The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill has been erupting and enhancing the critics and uniting the voices of the notable people and opposition parties against the passage of the blunder build bill in the chambers of the Parliament. In line with that, the actor and president of Makkal Needhi Maiam Kamal Haasan has slashed the government on excluding the Sri Lankan Tamils and Muslims in granting Indian citizenship.

By accusing the Center on the handicapped bill, the actor and political figure in Tamil Nadu has asked the government on why the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, who had faced a methodic genocide, and the Muslims who have been facing discrimination, be excluded from the bill? He further quizzed that if the bill is a genuinely benevolent and not a vote garnering exercise, then why won't this CAB stop to pick up stranded Tamils and troubled Muslims of Sri Lanka?

His voice comes moments after spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravishankar and reputed lyricist Vairamuthu had urged the Central government to provide the standard of Indian National for the Sri Lankan refugees during the same time of inducting the refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

By expressing his notion through his twitter handle, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar had requested the Indian government to consider giving the citizenship for more than one lakh Sri Lankan Tamil refugees who are living in this country for the last thirty-five years. Vairamuthu has tweeted that the Sri Lankan refugees should not be seen as citizens of the neighboring country and urged the government to consider the refugees as human beings and to show the humanity for them who had lost their land.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill seeks to grant Indian citizenship and provides the status of Indian national for the non-Muslim refugees of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who fled their countries after facing series of religious persecution and suppression at their homeland. By consenting the legislation that amends the Citizenship Act 1955, the bill would induct Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Parsis who migrated to India from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan till December 31st, 2014 as Indian citizens by revoking their identities as 'illegal immigrants'.

The Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have been camping their shelter in Tamil Nadu since the 1980s when the island country was broken out due to civil war. Of these refugees, the reports say that most of them have settled and been offered jobs in the state while some of the refugees were born in India. Despite the critics and allegations, Union Home Minister Amit Shah has tabled the bill in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament on Wednesday, where the Modi-led Central government lacks the majority and the upper house has been discussing the bill and it's expected that the bill would be introduced for voting in early evening of Wednesday.

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