Which of the following statement is/are correct about Section 6 A of the Citizenship Act, 1955.

The correct answer is option 4 i.e. All of the above . Explanation : The Supreme Court said that it would first decide the validity of Section 6 A of the Citizenship Act, 1955 before looking into deeper citizenship matters pertaining to Assam. Section 6A was a special provision inserted into the 1955 Act in furtherance of a Memorandum of Settlement called the ‘Assam Accord’ signed on August 15, 1985 by the then Rajiv Gandhi government with the leaders of the Assam Movement to preserve and protect the Assamese culture, heritage, linguistic and social identity. The Accord came at the end of a six-year-long agitation by the All Assam Students Union (AASU) to identify and deport illegal immigrants, mostly from neighbouring Bangladesh, from the State. Petitions were filed challenging the “discriminatory” nature of Section 6A in granting citizenship to immigrants, illegal ones at that . Their petition, which had been filed more than ten years ago, in 2012, states that “ the application of Section 6-A to the State of Assam alone has led to a perceptible change in the demographic pattern of the State and has reduced the people of Assam to a minority in their own State ”.