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News India Live, Digital Desk: Citizenship: A woman lives in Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, named Rehana (changed name). At first glance, she looks like any common Indian woman. She takes advantage of government schemes, has a ration card, and when elections come, they are also named in the voter list. But there is a shocking truth that overshadows all these papers – Rehana is not a citizen of India.
This is the story of such a lifeWhich has been stuck on an invisible thread between two countries for 40 years.
In 1984, Rehana came to India on a tourist visa from Karachi city of Pakistan. Here he met Aziz Khan, whom he got married and settled here. He thought that this is now his house, this is his homeland. But the country does not just make the heart settled in the heart, it also has to be removed on the papers.
Rehana applied for Indian citizenship several times, but every time her application was lost somewhere in the files. Meanwhile, her visa continued to grow from time to time and she lived legally here. In these 40 years, she became the mother of 10 children, who are all Indians from birth. His entire family, his whole world is in India.
Now comes the most shocking aspect of the story.
Even without citizenship, Rehana has all the documents that are the identity of an Indian citizen:
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Aadhar card
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PAN card
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Voter ID Card
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Overall id
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Ration card
Not only this, he is also the beneficiary of the ambitious ‘Ladli Bahna Yojana’ of the Madhya Pradesh government, under which money comes to his account.
This story is more than a woman’s 40 -year struggle. This raises a big and serious question on our system. After all, how can a foreign national, whose citizenship application is pending, can get the most important identity card of the country? This is a serious issue related to national security, more than an administrative lapse.
After the husband’s death, Rehana now lives with her son. After the matter came to light, the local administration has come into action and has started investigation. But whatever the results of this investigation, this story makes us think. This is the story of a woman who gave her life to a country, but that country could not give her a piece of paper as her citizen.
