Question

According to the Citizenship Act, 1955, Indian citizenship cannot be acquired by _____________________________.
A. Children of the diplomatic personnel or alien enemies born in India on or after 26th January, 1950
B. Children born of Indian citizens abroad
C. Incorporation of territory not forming part of India at the commencement of the Constitution
D. Naturalization

Answer 1

Hint: The bestowment of an individual as a citizen of India is overseen by Part II of the Constitution of India (Articles 5 to 11). Rendering to Article 5, all the people that were inhabitants in India at the beginning of the Constitution were citizens of India as well as people native to India. The President of India is named the First Citizen of India.

Complete answer:
The Indian legislation connected to this subject is The Citizenship Act, 1955, which has been rewritten by the Citizenship (Amendment) Acts of 1986, 1992, 2003, 2005, 2015, and 2019. The 1986 amendment constrained citizenship by birth to necessitate that at least 1 parent had to be an Indian citizen. The 2003 amendment additionally constrained that feature by necessitating that a parent could not be an unlawful refugee. The 2003 amendment also authorized the Government of India to build a National Register of Citizens. The 2019 amendment offered a simpler pathway to citizenship for factions mistreated on the base of faith, i.e., Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsi, and Christians from the adjoining Muslim-majority nations of Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Afghanistan who arrived in India before December 2014. These 2 actions have given an upsurge to large-scale objections in India in 2019. Article 9 of the Indian Constitution articulates that a person who willingly obtains citizenship of any other nation is no longer an Indian citizen. Also, rendering to The Passports Act, a person has to renounce his/her Indian passport and voter card, and additional Indian ID cards must not be used after another nation's citizenship is attained. It is an indictable crime if the person neglects to renounce the passport.

Thus, option (A) is correct.

Note: The 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act offers a pathway to citizenship for religiously mistreated factions, viz. Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, who confronted "maltreatment or dread of maltreatment" in their nations and arrived in India on or before December 31, 2014. The Act was approved by both the houses of Parliament by December 11, 2019. It confronted extensive disapproval and demonstrations on the grounds that it is prejudiced by overlooking Muslims, and for disrupting the Assam Accord which assured 1971 as the cut-off date for the unlawful refugees from Bangladesh.