The Shiv Sena hit back at BJP before tabling the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill in Lok Sabha, claiming that voting bank politics was incorrect. If someone in the garb of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill is trying to do a vote bank politics then it is not in the country's interest, "it said. Shiv Sena also proposed in an editorial in the party mouthpiece ' Saamana ' that non-Muslim refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who are going to be given Indian citizenship should not be allowed to vote for 25 years.