Who are citizens of India? How can Indian citizenship be acquired? Is Aadhar proof of citizenship?

Indian citizenship, passport (representative image)

In the midst of the special intensive revision of the election rolls in Bihar, North India, the issue of citizenship hit the headlines in the midst of the row. The Indian Election Commission said he had the authority to search for citizenship evidence of the Supreme Court. Initially, the AADHAAR rejected the proposal to be accepted as valid documents of voter identity and ration cards. However, when the APEKS court gave an order, he agreed to accept Aadhaar as one of the articles. In the midst of this discussion, the questions requesting answers: What are the provisions of citizenship in India and who are the citizens of this country? The Indian Constitution, which entered into force on January 26, 1950, does not define citizenship. However, it provides various categories of people with the right to citizenship from Article 2, from Article 5 to Article 11. The 1955 Citizenship Law, which has been amended many times, reveals the conditions for the acquisition and determination of Indian citizenship.

There are four ways to acquire Indian citizenship: birth, landing, recording and citizenship.

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With birth

• Everyone born in India between January 26, 1950 and July 1, 1987 is Indian citizens, regardless of the nationality of their parents.
• After 1 July 1987 and before 2 December 2004, all people born in India were Indian citizens if one of their parents was an Indian citizen during birth.
• Everyone born in India after December 2, 2004, both of them are Indian citizens of India, their parents are Indian or at least one Indian and the other is an illegal immigrant.
• Record
• The rules of acquiring Indian citizenship by registration are as follows:
• The applicant must live in India for at least seven years before applying for citizenship.
• It should be the resident of any country except indivisible India.
• A person who is married to an Indian citizen and lives in India for at least seven years before applying for citizenship.
• Little children of people with Indian citizens.

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Descently

• If a person was born outside India on January 26, 1950, and his father was an Indian citizen with birth.
• If a person was born from India on 2 December 1992 or after, but before 3 December 2004, one of his parents is an Indian citizen with birth, and India is an Indian citizen.
• On December 3, a person born outside or after India makes a statement that his parents do not have a passport of any country and that his birth is registered to the Indian Embassy within a year of birth.

With citizenship

If a person has lived in India for 12 years before the application and has qualifications in accordance with the third program of the Citizenship Law, he may receive the citizenship of India with the acceptance of citizenship.

What does the Indian constitution say?

Article 6 On June 19, 1959, or before Pakistan, one of the grandmother and parents, or one of the parents, says that if an Indian citizen will automatically become an Indian citizen.

Article 7 He says that the people who migrated to Pakistan after March 1, 1947, but later returned to settlement permits, are Indian citizens.

Article 8 It is a provision that everyone born outside India could resort to citizenship if one of the grandmothers and parents were an Indian citizen.

Article 9 He explains that anyone who voluntarily acquires the citizenship of another country will stop being an Indian citizen automatically.

Article 10 He says that everyone with Indian citizenship will continue to be a citizen subject to the provisions of any law that can be made by Parliament.

Article 11 It enables Parliament to make a law on the acquisition and determination of the provisions of Indian citizenship.

Citizenship Amendment Law, 2019

The Citizenship Act Law, 2019, December 31, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Pars and Jains added a new dimension. However, the government argued that Muslims did the majority in these countries and that they did not see cruelty on the grounds of religion and therefore did not need this protection.

Assam is a strange case in which Article 6a of the Indian Constitution is applied.

He says that Indian citizenship will be given ten years after it is identified as stranger to the states that came to the state from outside the country between 1 January 1966 and 25 March 1971. They cannot vote, but they may have a passport of India in the interim period.

Is AADHhar evidence of citizenship?

No. In 2004, the Union explained that Aadhar was not evidence of Indian citizenship; This is only proof of identity. On the contrary, he stressed that Aadhaar was never evidence of citizenship. Even foreign nationals can get it if they live in India for half a year. The new AADHAAR cards and the PDF versions of the Identity Certificate contained a waiver of “citizenship or birth date, not evidence of identity”. The Indian Election Commission accepts the 12 -step number as proof of the date of birth of registering people to vote. In a decision on August 12, 2025, the Bombay Supreme Court also said that AADHH was not evidence of citizenship.