Highlights
- At present, the number of corona infected has reached 9,026 in Nepal, while the death toll has reached 23.
- Nepal’s parliament passed a bill amending the Citizenship Bill
- Kathmandu Nepal (Nepal) once again in the country of India Corona virus is blamed for spreading (Coronavirus). He says that 90 percent of the cases have come from India in Nepal. It is worth noting that at present, the number of corona infected has reached 9,026 in Nepal. Out of this, 1,772 cases have been reported. The death toll is 23 there. Nepal said that Corona is spreading in the country due to migrant workers returning from India.According to Nepal’s Ministry of Health, infection of Kovid-19 has spread in 75 of the 77 districts of the country. According to Dr. Basudev Pandey, Director of the Department of Epidemiology, 90 percent of the cases of Kovid-19 infection in Nepal are from migrant workers returned from abroad, most of them from India.Also Read: Coronavirus fears in China find a new target: Salmon
On the other hand, the Parliament of Nepal has passed the ruling Communist Party’s proposal to amend the Citizenship Bill. Under this new proposal, foreign women marrying Nepalese men will have to wait a long seven years to get Nepal’s citizenship after marriage.
Citizenship law will increase problems
Significantly, with the proposal of Nepal’s new citizenship law proposal, it will take seven years for foreign women, mostly Indians, who marry Nepalese men to get Nepal’s citizenship after marriage. Most members of the committee have given their consent to this proposal but the country’s main opposition party Nepali Congress and some other parties have opposed the controversial amendment proposal.
Leaders of the ruling Nepali Communist Party argue that India should not object to this. Because even there, a foreign woman marrying an Indian man takes a long time of seven years to get the right of citizenship legally.
Protests are also taking place in NepalOn the other hand, Nepal’s main opposition party Nepalese Congress leader Bimalinder Nidhi opposes this new proposal to grant citizenship to foreign women after a long wait. He said that the Citizenship Act 2006 has appropriate provisions in this regard, which need not be changed. This would likely lead to differences between the two countries.