Overview

• AGP vice-president Kumar Deepak Das said the party will file a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking to exempt Assam from the Centre’s Immigrant Foreigners [Relief] Directive 2025.
• The Home Ministry’s order under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025 allows Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan who entered on or before December 31, 2024 to stay without valid travel documents if they fled religious persecution.
• The directive extends the entry cutoff for protection from prosecution to 2024, which differs from the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 that uses December 31, 2014 for citizenship eligibility.
• Assam BJP spokesperson Dr. Devajit Mahanta accused the opposition of misrepresenting the order and asserted it does not change the CAA citizenship cutoff or affect the state’s demography.
• The BJP cited that since CAA implementation only 12 people applied for citizenship in Assam and three were granted, and the AGP’s earlier CAA-related petition remains pending before the Supreme Court.