It has been three years since Hindu migrants from Bangladesh and Burma celebrated the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), many hoping to get citizenship rights in India. The community remains disappointed now, as the stage is set for Karnataka to vote in the Assembly elections on May 10, but a number of possible first-time voters remain outside the electoral rolls.
Community leaders estimate that about 3,000 youngsters, who became eligible to exercise their franchise in the last three years, have failed to get into the electoral rolls from the four Bangla and one Burmese camps in Sindhanur taluk in Raichur district, some 450 km from Bengaluru due to existing laws.
