<h1>Chief minister calls Centre's Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025 order on minority migrants an election gimmick, challenges rights and oversight</h1> State chief minister criticized a recent central government order under the Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025 that permits certain minority migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who entered by December 31, 2024, to remain without valid travel documents, calling it an election gimmick and contrasting its scope with the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (cutoff 2014). The minister challenged legal ambiguity over whether the order grants citizenship or ancillary rights (ration cards, Aadhaar, voting), raised concerns about lack of parliamentary debate or committee oversight, alleged targeted enforcement against specific linguistic and tribal groups, and accused the Centre of politicising immigration ahead of national polls.