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and those that follow, but Parliament may make altogether a new law embodying new principles. That is the first proposition that has to be borne in mind by those who will participate in the debate on these articles. They must not understand that the provisions that we are making for citizenship on the date of the commencement of this Constitution are going to be permanent or unalterable. All that we are doing is to decide ad hoc for the time being.
Having said that, I would like to draw the attention of the Members to the fact that in conferring citizenship on the date of the commencement of this Constitution, the Drafting Committee has provided for five different classes of people who can, provided they satisfy the terms and conditions which are laid down in this article, become citizens on the date on which the Constitution commences.
These five categories are :
(1) Persons domiciled in India and bom in India : In other words, those who form the bulk of the population of India as defined by this Constitution ;
(2) Persons who are domiciled in India but who are not born in India but who have resided in India. For instance persons who are the subjects of the Portuguese Settlements in India or the French Settlements in India like Chandernagore. Pondicherry, or the Iranians for the matter of that who have come from Persia and although they are not born here, they have resided for a long tune and undoubtedly have the intention of becoming the citizens of India.
The three other categories of people whom the Drafting Committee proposes to bring within the ambit of this article are :
(3) Persons who are residents in India but who have migrated to Pakistan ;
(4) Persons resident in Pakistan and who have migrated to India ;
and
(5) Persons who or whose parents are born in India but are residing outside India.
These are the live categories of people who are covered by the provisions of this article. Now the first category of people viz., persons who are domiciled in the territory of India and who are born in the territory of India or whose parents were born in the territory of India are dealt with in article 5 clauses (a) and (b). They will be citizens under those provisions if they satisfy the conditions laid down there.
The second class of people to whom I referred, viz., persons who have resided in India but who are not born in India are covered by clause (c) of article 5, who have been ordinarily resident in the territory of India for not less than five years immediately preceding the date of such commencement. The condition that it imposes is this that he must be