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3,600 Indian Women Married To Nepalese Get Citizenship

Darpan News Desk IANS, 26 Apr, 2016 11:24 AM
    As many as 3,672 Indian women married to Nepalese men since the promulgation of the new constitution in September last year have become naturalised citizens of the Himalayan nation, the home ministry said on Tuesday.
     
    The issue of citizenship to Indians married to Nepalese nationals was a big issue during the Terai/Madhes agitation.
     
    India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Sawraj had on September 7 said in parliament that Indian girls married in Nepal were granted naturalised citizenship through matrimony.
     
    "But the new constitution has erased the provision of naturalised citizenship through matrimony," she had said.
     
    Binod K.C., joint secretary in Nepal's ministry of home affairs, said Indian girls married to Nepali citizens from 20 districts of the Terai/Madhes region were among the top recipients of naturalised citizenship.
     
    The new constitution does not discriminate against any foreign woman married to a Nepali, he said.
     
    Article 11(6) of the new constitution has a provision that says: "A foreigner woman married to a Nepali man can acquire naturalised citizenship in accordance with the federal law, if she so desires."
     
    At present, 12 members of Nepal's parliament have acquired naturalised citizenship.
     
    Meanwhile, the Nepal government has also cancelled the citizenship of three Indian-origin people.
     
    A cabinet meeting on Tuesday decided to cancel their citizenship after it was found that they had provided false affidavits to acquire Nepali citizenship.
     
    Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Anil Kumar Mishra and Satish Kumar Mishra had acquired citizenship from Rupandehi district, which lies along the Nepal-India border.
     
    "After the government found that they had submitted false documents to acquire citizenship, the cabinet decided to cancel it," said Nepal government spokesperson Sherdhan Rai.

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