RAS question
Article 6 of the Constitution deals with the citizenship rights of persons who migrated from:
Correct answer: (B) Pakistan to India.
Article 6 of the Constitution of India deals with citizenship rights of persons who migrated to India from the territory now included in Pakistan.
Explanation
Article 6 is a citizenship-at-commencement provision framed for Partition migration into India. Its heading and text cover persons who migrated to the territory of India from the territory now included in Pakistan. The provision then separates cases by the cut-off date of 19 July 1948: a person who migrated before that date had to be ordinarily resident in India since the date of migration, while a person who migrated on or after that date had to be registered as a citizen by the appointed officer before the commencement of the Constitution. This is why the answer is Pakistan to India, not any general category of foreign migration.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Tibet to India is wrong because Article 6 specifically refers to migration from the territory now included in Pakistan, not to Tibet.
- (C) India to Pakistan is wrong because migration to Pakistan falls under Article 7, while Article 6 concerns migration into India from Pakistan.
- (D) Myanmar to India is wrong because neither Article 6 nor this citizenship rule identifies Myanmar as the country covered.
Concept
This tests Part II citizenship at the commencement of the Constitution, especially Article 6's rule for migration from Pakistan to India. It fits RAS article-mapping practice because the options differ mainly by the direction and source of migration.