The Citizenship Amendment Act, which will give citizenship to religious minorities from neighbouring countries who settled in India, is likely to be be implemented from next month, sources have told NDTV.

The Citizenship Amendment Act — passed in 2019 amid massive protests across the country — makes religion, for the first time, the test of Indian citizenship.

The government contended that it would help non-Muslim refugees from three Muslim-dominated neighbouring countries if they fled to India because of religious persecution.

Critics said the law discriminates against Muslims and violates secular tenets of the Constitution.

Taken together, the CAA, NRC and the NPR unleashed a storm of protests across the country in 2019, before the coronavirus outbreak put it all on hold.

Before the protests wound up, the National Registry of Citizens, which was supposed to be rolled out across the country, was put on hold by the Centre.