For the past several days, Pakistani woman Seema Haider is in discussion about her love story with Sachin Meena, a resident of Uttar Pradesh. Ever since Seema came to India, she has been getting offers one after the other. In this episode, the Republican Party of India, the party of Union Minister Ramdas Athawale, has now offered Seema Haider to join the party. Not only this, the party has also talked about giving ticket to Seema for the elections.

Seema Haider: Can Pakistan's Seema Haider contest elections in India? Know what the citizenship law says

Meanwhile, many questions are arising whether Seema is eligible to contest elections in India? Can a foreign national contest elections in the country? Is it possible if Seema gets Indian citizenship? Is it easy for them?

First know what offer has been received by Seema Haider?
Ramdas Athawale’s party included in the Modi government at the Center has offered Seema to enter politics. Also said that along with contesting Seema Haider on his election symbol, he will make Uttar Pradesh Mahila Morcha president and national spokesperson.

In this regard, RPI National Vice President Masoom Kishore said, ‘Seema Haider is a Pakistani citizen and has come to India. If Seema gets a clean chit from the security agencies and gets Indian citizenship, then Seema will be welcomed into the party. This is a law made by Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Indian citizens can contest elections anywhere. ,

Can a foreign national contest elections in the country?
It is a mandatory condition for a candidate to be an Indian citizen to contest elections anywhere in India. The law says that a non-Indian citizen cannot be a candidate contesting elections. Article 84(a) of the Constitution states that no person shall be eligible to be elected to any parliamentary constituency unless he is a citizen of India. A similar provision is also present in Article 173 (A) of the Constitution for the State Legislature.

The second condition is that to contest the Lok Sabha elections in the country, the age of the candidate should be 25 years. In Seema’s case, she is only 21 years old at present. However, Seema also claims that her age was written six years less. But this argument also has no meaning because his Pakistani identity card shows his age as 21 years only.

If Seema gets Indian citizenship, can she contest elections?
First of all, there are many legal problems only if Seema Haider gets Indian citizenship. There are many rules for getting citizenship of India, but in the case of border, the rule of marriage has to be understood. Actually, the law says that any foreign citizen can apply for citizenship here after marrying an Indian person.

In this way, Seema is married to Sachin, so she can apply to be an Indian citizen. But the problem with Seema is that she has entered India illegally. The Citizenship Act says that any illegal migrant is not eligible to be an Indian citizen. Now whether Seema will get citizenship here or not, the complete right goes into the hands of the Government of India. Even if they get citizenship, it will be only an exception on ‘humanitarian grounds’.

If Seema gets citizenship on humanitarian grounds, will she be able to contest elections?
A foreigner who has been ordinarily resident in India for 11 years can acquire Indian citizenship through the naturalization process. That is, in any case, it will take more than a decade for them to become Indian. After that the government accepts their application, it will depend on the report of the security agencies.

Along with this, in the case of Seema, it should also be kept in mind that he is still out on bail. In fact, he was arrested by the Uttar Pradesh Police for illegally entering India. If in future the court gives a verdict against them in the disposal of the case, then it will be even more difficult for them to get citizenship. Even if she gets citizenship, she cannot contest the election if she is sentenced to more than two years.

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