1. Citizenship: At the date of commencement of this Constitution :
every person domiciled in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of the Federation—
(a) who has been ordinarily resident in those territories for not less than five years immediately preceding that date, or
(b) who, or whose parents, or either of whose parents, was or were born in India,
shall be a citizen of the Federation :
Provided that any such person being a citizen of any other State may, in accordance with Federal law, elect not to accept the citizenship hereby conferred.
Explanation .—For the purposes of this clause—
“Domicile” has the same meaning as in the Indian Succession Act, 1925.
