Discussion
Citizenship is dealt with in which part of the Constitution?
Answer: B
Correct answer: Part II
Citizenship is covered by Part II, Articles 5 to 11. These articles determine who was a citizen at the commencement of the Constitution on 26 January 1950 - by domicile, by migration from or to Pakistan, or by descent for persons of Indian origin residing abroad. Article 11 then empowers Parliament to regulate the whole subject by law, which it did through the Citizenship Act of 1955. The Act provides five modes of acquiring citizenship: by birth, descent, registration, naturalisation and incorporation of territory; and three of losing it: renunciation, termination and deprivation. Two features are worth remembering. India has single citizenship, with no separate citizenship of a state, borrowed from Britain rather than the United States. And India does not permit dual nationality - acquiring another citizenship terminates Indian citizenship automatically, and the Overseas Citizen of India card is a residency and travel status, not citizenship. Part I deals with the Union and its territory, Part III with Fundamental Rights and Part IV with the Directive Principles.
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