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Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi connected Thursday (December 11, 2025) gave distant citizenship certificates to 35 persons, who person migrated from Bangladesh to India nether Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019.
Now, full 51 persons person been granted citizenship nether CAA successful Odisha portion 1100 applications are nether process.
According to Directorate of Census, each 35 persons who received citizenship certificate belonged to Hindu religion. Most of them had fled from Bangladesh erstwhile they were subjected to torture astatine the manus of Muslim bulk there.
“I person nary thought nether which circumstances we were forced to permission Bangladesh. What my parents, who are dormant now, said Muslims resorted to genocide successful retaliation to Babri Masjid demolition successful 1992. All successful Hindu bulk neighbourhood were forced to alteration their religion. If anyone protested, they were persecuted and women were subjected to intersexual assault,” said Paritosh Sarkar, 37, who on with younger member and elder sister, received certificate from Mr. Majhi.
After fleeing to Umarkote successful confederate Odisha territory of Nabrangpur via Kolkata, these siblings were settled down and joined into Hindu Bengali emigrants who were settled successful Odisha and erstwhile Madhya Pradesh aft independence.
Similarly, Kiran Mandal, 27, is fortunate arsenic helium has been granted citizenship portion his member and parent could not fulfill the territory and State level committees with their documents. Their applications are being studied further.
Southern Odisha districts of Malkangiri and Nabarangpur are acceptable code for the Bangladeshi emigrants.
A ample fig of Hindu Bengali emigrants had entered India successful 1950s from East Pakistan erstwhile they faced precocious grade of discrimination, persecution and harassment. They landed successful West Bengal. However, the West Bengal authorities past could not grip ample influx of Bengali emigrants. The Centre had past selected sparsely populated Dandakaranya portion of Madhya Pradesh (now Chhattisgarh) and Odisha for their resettlement. Total 280 villages were acceptable up successful Malkangiri and Nabarangpur districts.
Since past whenever determination was immoderate occupation successful Bangladesh, Hindu Bangladeshi emigrants knocked the doorway of their relatives settled successful Malkangiri and Nabarangpur.
As per the rules of Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 notified March 11, 2024, individuals belonging to number communities from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who entered India connected oregon earlier December 31, 2014 person been deemed eligible for Indian citizenship.
Welcoming the caller citizens astatine a peculiar programme jointly organised by the Directorate of Census Operations, Odisha, and the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. Majhi said, “you are present portion of our future. Your safety, dignity, and improvement are our work and duty. I invited you arsenic citizens of India.” The CAA-2019 is ineffable instrumentality which is anticipation and assurance for persecuted minorities, helium said.
“In our country, minorities person the spot and abstraction to rise their voices. But erstwhile minorities successful neighbouring countries look persecution, those aforesaid voices stay silent. Today, however, this mindset is changing. The signifier of selectively favouring lone 1 religion successful the sanction of secularism has travel to an end. Discrimination connected the ground of religion nary longer exists successful the country. In the eyes of the law, everyone is equal. The Citizenship Amendment Act is simply a palmy implementation of this principle,” said Mr. Majhi.
