Jaipur: Hamara Sapna Pura Ho Gaya (Our dream has been fulfilled), says Hindu Singh Sodha who has fought a nearly 25-year-long fight in Rajasthan for thousands of Pakistani migrants seeking refuge in India, lodged in camps across the western part of the state in Jodhpur, Bikaner, and Jaisalmer.Contrary to the scenes in Assam and the North-East, where protests and violence have led to curfew in certain parts, there is jubilation in the Pakistani migrant camps in Rajasthan over the Citizenship Amendment Bill being passed by both houses of Parliament.Two organisations representing Pakistani migrants here offer different estimates on how many stand to benefit immediately from the move.“It will be close to 25,000 Pakistani migrants who will now get citizenship immediately. All of them have spent over five years in India and were waiting to cross the earlier benchmark of 11 years,” says Sodha, himself a Pakistani migrant who got Indian citizenship in 1977 and runs the organisation Seemant Log Sansthan in Jodhpur. Most of them are lodged in camps like Alkasor and Kaliberi in Jodhpur which saw “big celebrations last night.”Another organisation, the Hindu Migrant Association in Rajasthan, says over 50,000 Pakistani migrants here would benefit and claims that over 98% of them are Hindus.The last time a big chunk of migrants from Pakistan got citizenship was in 2005, when 13,000 were given the same in one go. “That was after my efforts that led to District Magistrates being given the power for a period of that one year to give citizenship. However, the speed slowed down thereafter and it was only after I appealed to then Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh in 2016, that the power was again delegated to the District Magistrates. Still, only about 1,310migrants living in Rajasthan have got citizenship since,” Sodha said.He said there had been a steady stream of such Hindu Pakistani migrants coming through the Thar Express that runs between Pakistan and Jodhpur. “But the DMs opted not to go for ‘camp mode’ to give out citizenships in larger numbers but went by each individual case. Hence, the speed had been very slow so far,” Sodha said.He says the central and state government should also make bigger efforts now to enable migrants to get proper means of livelihood and benefits of all government schemes.In the last three years, 2,447 migrants from the six religions specified under the CAB were granted citizenship by India and 1,310 of them were granted citizenship in Rajasthan.In 2016, the centre delegated the power to district magistrates of 16 districts and seven states to grant citizenship to migrants. Three of these districts are in Rajasthan, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer and Jaipur. Jodhpur alone accounts for 1,113 citizenships.