<span style="color: #222222;">Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju informed the Lok Sabha today that no accurate data on illegal migrants in the country is available. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">This is because they have entered India surreptitiously without valid travel documents. He clarified that the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 is meant to facilitate Indian citizenship only to the minority communities who were compelled to leave their original homes in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh to seek shelter in India because of religious persecution. <br />''<br />''They include Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians. He said legal migrants belonging to the majority community from these countries are also eligible to acquire Indian citizenship irrespective of their religion or date of entry in India if they fulfil the eligibility criteria. </span><br />