A government ministry's statement that passports do not prove citizenship creates legal ambiguity and state control over identity recognition, forcing citizens into a documentation labyrinth while enabling arbitrary exclusion and administrative discrimination.
The Ministry of External Affairs has said that the passport does not prove citizenship in India. People are now asking on social media how else they can prove that they are Indians. DW has the latest.
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