MADHESIS OPPOSE NEW NEPAL RULE
Nepal communist party’s Secretariat decided
that it will support a seven-year waiting period before foreign women married
to Nepali men can acquire Nepali citizenship
Nepal’s chief Opposition Nepal Congress, and
leading figures of Nepal’s plains have opposed the planned changes in the
existing citizenship rules
Affect the families in Nepal’s plains also
known as the Madhes region
Since the late 1940s, the term
'Madhes' was used by politicians in the Nepal Terai to differentiate between
interests of the people of the Terai and of the hills
In 1952, Nepal Citizenship Act
entitled all those immigrants to obtain Nepali citizenship who had stayed in the country for at least five
years
Citizenship Act of 1963 entitled
immigrants to receive Nepali citizenship if they were able to read and write Nepali and engaged in business
The term Madheshi became a widely recognised name for Nepali citizens
with an Indian cultural background only after 1990
In 2006, the Nepal Citizenship
Act: People born before 1990 and residing permanently in the country obtained
the right to Nepali citizenship
Constitution of Nepal 2015
contains provisions for a Nepali citizenship by naturalisation,
which can be acquired by: foreign women
who are married to a Nepali man; children of a Nepali woman and a foreign man
Madheshi comprising various
cultural groups such as Hindu caste groups, Muslims, Marwaris and indigenous people of the Terai
Madheshi people comprise Brahmin and Dalit caste
groups as well as ethnic groups such as Maithils, Bhojpuri and Bajjika speaking people
Many of these groups share
cultural traditions, educational and family ties with people living south of
the international border in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal
Culture of Madeshi people is
complex and diverse
Madheshi people speak Bengali, Maithili, Bhojpuri, Urdu and Hindi languages
Tharu people and Pahari people living in the Terai do not consider themselves
as Madheshi
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