Over 2.16 lakh Indians renounced citizenship in 2023, Centre tells Parliament
Exodus of high-skilled, net worth Indians is an economic travesty that will shrink India’s tax revenue base over the next few years, the Congress said.
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More than 2.16 lakh Indians gave up their citizenship in 2023, the Central government told Parliament on Friday.
The data was shared by Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh as a written response to a question by Aam Aadmi Party MP Raghav Chadha.
Chadha had asked the government for details of Indian citizens who renounced their citizenship in the last five years.
A total of 2,25,620 gave up their citizenship in 2022, said Singh. The number was 1,63,370 in 2021, 85,256 in 2020 and 1,44,017 in 2019.
Chadha also sought to know the steps taken by the government to determine the “financial as well as intellectual drainage” and loss to the country because of the high renouncement of citizenship.
“The government recognises the potential of the global workplace in an era of a knowledge economy,” said Singh. “It has also brought about a transformational change in its engagement with the Indian diaspora.”
The minister added that a “successful, prosperous, and influential diaspora” is an “asset for India”.
“India stands to gain a lot from tapping its diaspora networks and productive utilisation of the soft power that comes from having such a flourishing diaspora,” he said.
Sharing Singh’s written response on social media, Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said that the exodus of high-skilled and high-net-worth Indians...
