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The Indian Union Muslim League will on Thursday document a writ request against the antagonistic Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was passed by the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, which was passed by Parliament on Wednesday, faces its first lawful test as the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) has chosen to record a writ request in the Supreme Court against the antagonistic enactment.

The IUML had before said it would challenge the bill in the zenith court once it is passed by Parliament as it stated that the enactment abuses Article 14 of the Constitution by getting religion-based citizenship.

The bill, which tries to give Indian citizenship to non-Muslim outcasts from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who confronted strict mistreatment there, has been panned by the Opposition for being prejudicial.

The bill was passed with 125 votes in support and 105 against it in the Rajya Sabha as other than BJP and its partners, for example, the Janata Dal (United) and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), the enactment was bolstered by the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the YSR Congress.

Answering to a six-and-a-half-hour banter on the Bill, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the bill tries to give citizenship to aggrieved minorities in the three nations and not remove citizenship of anybody. He dismissed the Opposition charge that the Bill was against Muslims and said they don't have anything to fear.

The enactment cruised through even as Assam and its neighboring states in the Northeast seen extraordinary fights on Wednesday over the gigantically emotive bill. Guwahati was put under inconclusive time limit and versatile internet providers were cut off for 24 hours starting 7 pm on Wednesday, with Tripura previously confronting a 48-hour web barricade.

Head administrator Narendra Modi portrayed the Bill's entry as a "milestone day" for India and its ethos of sympathy and fraternity. The Bill will "mitigate sufferings of numerous who confronted mistreatment for quite a long time", he composed on Twitter.

Be that as it may, Congress president Sonia Gandhi said it denotes a "dim day" in the sacred history of India and is a "triumph of biased and extremist powers" over the nation's pluralism.

In an emphatic proclamation gave following the Bill was passed, Gandhi said the bill isn't only an attack against the everlasting standards of correspondence and strict non-segregation that have been revered in the Constitution, however speaks to a dismissal of an India that would be a free country for every one of her kin, independent of religion, locale, station, statement of faith, language or ethnicity.