Opposition’s misinformation campaign has generated enough negative publicity. Modi govt will be in bigger trouble if Bangladesh’s rumour mills become active.
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who was released on bail Thursday night, said the movement against the "black" citizenship law is about the country's future and upholding the Constitution.
Without any political party's support, India's Muslims protesting CAA have asserted a new political identity and also settled the issue of representation.
An additional charge under the Juvenile Justice Act has been imposed on 33 people who were arrested earlier for allegedly indulging in violence during CAA protests on 20 December.
Less than a year after winning big Lok Sabha majority, Modi govt goes into ‘damage-control’ mode ahead of important state assembly elections this year.
Shashi Tharoor and Sadanand Dhume both thought Muslims asserting their existence through ‘la ilaha Illallah’ was too extreme for the anti-CAA protests.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
“Although there is not even a remote possibility of an exodus” , very funny , India has becoming raciest apartheid like their newly found Israeli lovers
I think audience of this article should learn more about Bangladesh, people in Bangladesh not starving at all or endangered to migrate a country like India. Rather Bangladesh is now 4th foreign currency remittance country for India. Hundreds of thousands people have been working in this country legally and illegally without even paying income tax.
Well the point here in this article is quite indicating that upcoming days aren’t good for Indian even though they not agree to acknowledge that it’s their own producing issues…. Point to be noted bangladesh is no longer poor country its economy’s are get bigger even bigger and if u make some studies then u will find some sector’s bangladesh are far more advanced instead of India in terms of export… However in this edge no country can suppressed other countries by the sake of HISTORY… And with a due respect that India were only friend in our dark nights 1971 me as a citizen of Bangladesh we never forget that even our honorable prime Minister sheikh Hasina are always nice to with India and her strategy her generosity her diplomatic point of view was always unconditional regarding India… But as u can see now what feedback we got now!!!! I think modi govt should be more fantastic rather than fanatic to main and sustainability in the region….
The actions and comments of BJP leaders and the CAA assume that:
1- There are a large number of illegal Bangladeshis living in India
2- Illegal, muslim Bangladeshis are termites destroying the structure of India
3- Illegal, hindu Bangladeshis are here because of state-supported religious persecution
If these are the assumptions, why do they want Bangladesh to be a friend of India?
I think the writer is misinformed here ..neither politically nor strategically it’s possible for Bangladesh…hope the writers do go through an Asia map before writing…
For the first time one sees a ruling party member accusing the people (since the protests have not been led by Opposition in any case) for a foreign policy mess! Why did the govt double down on this in the first place? Was there sufficient application of mind or the consideration was narrow self serving ideology rather than national interest. Mr. Chari will do well to ponder , better still counsel (if he has any hope of being listened to) the govt managers to at least now back off from this disaster.
Modi is playing with fire and isolating India, neighbors are getting more close to China, economy is sinking, what are their priorities?
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The ideologues of RSS find a scapegoat for the deeds of this Govt; since it came to the power in 2014 it was preoccupied with the actions targeting the minority communities, read Muslims; the Govt doubled down on the same since its return in 2019 in Modi-2.
Amit Shah joined the PM Modi Govt in Ministry of Home with the lowering of any standing that the senior ministers had:
1. Rajnath Singh who was No-2 in Modi-1 became nobody in the Govt,
2. Arun Jaitely wasn’t in the Govt and soon passed away and
3. Nitin Gadkari was always kept a few miles away from the power-centre,
4. The Finance ministry was manned by a lady with merely five years experience in the Govt and before that she used to defend the BJP on TV which became Narendra Modi in 2013, and
5, S Jaishankar, a non-political person was brought in to the Foreign Ministry and tasked to became English speaking and Three-piece suit-wearing PM Narendra Modi,
6. Other ministers from Piyush Goel to Hardeep Puri became the defenders of PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in whatever they did,
7. The Opposition that was nobody in the Modi-1 had died in Modi-2; the CBI, IT, ED and the other central forces were made to go after their leaders.
8. The BJP Chief Ministers had already been voiceless also died,
9.. The bureaucracy was facing the music from all the quarters.,
10. The Modi-2 Govt was based in PMO and Ministry of Home.
11. The abrogation of Article 370 was followed by the CAA and Amit Shah started trumpeting that NRC all over India will soon follow.
Seshadri Chari and likes of him continued with their writings eulogising Narendra Modi and added Amit Shah also in their writings. This is where we are and Charis are continuing with singing Narendra Modi-Chalisa and Modi-Hare instead of saying that the actions with the emphasis of that targeted Muslim should have not been done.
Let’s wait for the History to judge the Govt in India as it will judge the coming of Donald Trump and the damage that the Govt did to their own countries, their immediate neighbours, and to the relations of their countries to the world at large,
Wow.. misinformation by the opposition is driving Bangladesh into China’s embrace! Nice way for the BJP to wash their hands off the foreign policy mess of their own making! Aapne chronology nahi samjhe?! Looks like Bangladesh did.
By that logic, I would like to ask whether the opposition did anything to drive Nepal into China’s hands?!
The government has only one approach to anyone who criticises or disagrees with them. Squeeze them to the ground!!
Dadagiri seems to be the keyword in our foreign policy. But even local dadas are nice to people in their immediate vicinity, something we apparently are not!
5 lakh Muslims are supposed to be infiltrators in Assam. If, as the author says, they will not be sent back, putting them in detention camps is not going to make Bangladesh feel any better.
You can’t say one thing, and do another. People are not fools. Nothing can be ‘said’ to prevent the ‘string of pearls’ from tightening around us. The government must simply ask itself whether winning one state election is worth losing India’s entire neighbourhood!!
“The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA are because the provisions have been misunderstood and much misinformation about the law has been circulated by opposition parties with ulterior political motives. ”
For how long will BJP keep reiterating this bullshit?!
Bangladesh can sit on the lap of China but make no mistake, China will not allow a single illegal Bangladeshi to enter China. And for exporting fanatic ideology? China has camps ready made, and no democracy, and hence the world will never know if someone disappears.
China can always do better than India with any country! So India will have to carefully weigh pros and cons of any relationship. While what Mr. Chari says makes sense -that complex internal issues of India such as CAA and NRC can have external implications, it also requires Bangla Desh leadership to be able to handle these issues in a balanced manner. Otherwise, India will always be on weak terms compared to China. Of course, there are limits to what Chinese can do for Bangla Desh and conversely, Bangla Desh will soon realize unacceptable costs of being a Chinese pawn. Hopefully, both sides are able to handle the issue maturely and Bangla Desh continues its India friendly policies as before. The present state of relations between the two countries is excellent and it should continue to grow further.
While title of the article is indeed provocative in typical The Print style, the contents are mature, as expected from Mr. Chari!
What can one expect from Chari who defends everything the Hindu extremists do. You don’t need to read his article to get the message. It is very unfortunate that thinking people like him are blindly supporting inhuman policies and practices of the right(?) wing .
It is funny that Chari thinks CAA is innocuous and the opposition is drumming up protests against it for political gains. He wants protests to stop, but no reversal of CAA to allay the fears of Bangladesh. Does he think that all Bangladeshis are fools?
Very few termites are coming from Pakistan and Afghanistan. So majority termites are from Bangladesh and many of their relatives may be still living in that country. Forget about relatives, their countrymen will feel embarrassed when their people are made stateless in India. It will be an affront to their self-respect. The whole idea of CAA is our fellow feeling for persecuted Hindus in Muslim countries. Can anyone think that the reverse is not applicable?
CAA is demonitisation of citizenship. Earlier it is withdrawn, better for the country.
Millions of Indian staying in Bangladesh doing job illegally. Bangladeshi people will not go India where they have chances to go many other country. India cannot feed their country .how it possible that Bangladeshi feel Comfort there.when it is figured out all neighbour province of Bangladesh economic condition is poorer then Bangladesh. You said half country will go India. Lol
Why don’t you write and explain why Hindus are leaving in such a large number for other countries, and why the Hindus would leave Hindu India altogether, leaving it empty, if the countries like the US, UK, etc. throw their doors open to them.
if India opens its door to Bangladesh, half of Bangladesh would move to India and then another Kashmir movement will start. the author is so naive or intentionally clever.
That one cannot say, but the other half will swim across the Mediterranean to Italy.
Most of the illegal migrants to Europe are coming from Bangladesh, according to Washington Post.
What country are most of Europe’s illegal migrants coming from? You might think Syria or some other war-torn nation. You would be wrong. According to the International Organization for Migration, the top “sending” country is a democracy that claims to have made strides in human development: Bangladesh. The Washington Post
Oh give me a break..there are and will always have problems between any neighbouring countries in the world. Canada and USA both are rich countries and there are some people always crossing illegally between Canada and USA and vice versa.
Illegally crossing by the citizens of any neighbouring country is a very nominal problem and rich or poor countries are not immune from it either.
Now when comes to Bangladeshis, we are very proud people ( in fact citizens from every country should be proud of their country). We will never go anyplace if we are not welcomed there. But this only happens in books and movies. Every human being has the same rights to the mother earth. If given a choice, I am sure no one would want to go leaving his/ her motherland.
So please have empathy in your heart. Count the blessing that you are not in the same position like those crossed illegally. Don’t demonize the people. They are the same people like you and I.
I still say that not half the people will go to India given a choice rather some people will go to India. Remember we, the Indian, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are not rich people on average.
Good. Ask them to go to China for treatment as well.
They don’t go for free treatment.They pay in dollar.
It’s an unwanted situation for India to be in. That said, without CAA, relationships with our neighbors will always ebb and flow AS China has a long-term plan of wooing India’s neighbors to its side with its loan-diplomacy, there by strangling India from all directions. CAA has been introduced at a very inopportune time complicating things further. The consequences of it will be clearly felt 20-30 years down the line.
It is not enough to be “ worried “. The foreign policy implications / costs of domestic politics is something the diplomatic corps, now so ably headed by one of their own, should constantly, effectively sensitise the government to.
“Although there is not even a remote possibility of an exodus” , very funny , India has becoming raciest apartheid like their newly found Israeli lovers
Article explained the truth and reality.
But who is happy or unhappy that’s his lack of Knowledge.
I think audience of this article should learn more about Bangladesh, people in Bangladesh not starving at all or endangered to migrate a country like India. Rather Bangladesh is now 4th foreign currency remittance country for India. Hundreds of thousands people have been working in this country legally and illegally without even paying income tax.
Bangladesh is largest importer of India after US.
Well the point here in this article is quite indicating that upcoming days aren’t good for Indian even though they not agree to acknowledge that it’s their own producing issues…. Point to be noted bangladesh is no longer poor country its economy’s are get bigger even bigger and if u make some studies then u will find some sector’s bangladesh are far more advanced instead of India in terms of export… However in this edge no country can suppressed other countries by the sake of HISTORY… And with a due respect that India were only friend in our dark nights 1971 me as a citizen of Bangladesh we never forget that even our honorable prime Minister sheikh Hasina are always nice to with India and her strategy her generosity her diplomatic point of view was always unconditional regarding India… But as u can see now what feedback we got now!!!! I think modi govt should be more fantastic rather than fanatic to main and sustainability in the region….
China has the potential to be a better friend than India, to Bangladesh.
The actions and comments of BJP leaders and the CAA assume that:
1- There are a large number of illegal Bangladeshis living in India
2- Illegal, muslim Bangladeshis are termites destroying the structure of India
3- Illegal, hindu Bangladeshis are here because of state-supported religious persecution
If these are the assumptions, why do they want Bangladesh to be a friend of India?
I think the writer is misinformed here ..neither politically nor strategically it’s possible for Bangladesh…hope the writers do go through an Asia map before writing…
For the first time one sees a ruling party member accusing the people (since the protests have not been led by Opposition in any case) for a foreign policy mess! Why did the govt double down on this in the first place? Was there sufficient application of mind or the consideration was narrow self serving ideology rather than national interest. Mr. Chari will do well to ponder , better still counsel (if he has any hope of being listened to) the govt managers to at least now back off from this disaster.
Modi is playing with fire and isolating India, neighbors are getting more close to China, economy is sinking, what are their priorities?
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The ideologues of RSS find a scapegoat for the deeds of this Govt; since it came to the power in 2014 it was preoccupied with the actions targeting the minority communities, read Muslims; the Govt doubled down on the same since its return in 2019 in Modi-2.
Amit Shah joined the PM Modi Govt in Ministry of Home with the lowering of any standing that the senior ministers had:
1. Rajnath Singh who was No-2 in Modi-1 became nobody in the Govt,
2. Arun Jaitely wasn’t in the Govt and soon passed away and
3. Nitin Gadkari was always kept a few miles away from the power-centre,
4. The Finance ministry was manned by a lady with merely five years experience in the Govt and before that she used to defend the BJP on TV which became Narendra Modi in 2013, and
5, S Jaishankar, a non-political person was brought in to the Foreign Ministry and tasked to became English speaking and Three-piece suit-wearing PM Narendra Modi,
6. Other ministers from Piyush Goel to Hardeep Puri became the defenders of PM Narendra Modi and Amit Shah in whatever they did,
7. The Opposition that was nobody in the Modi-1 had died in Modi-2; the CBI, IT, ED and the other central forces were made to go after their leaders.
8. The BJP Chief Ministers had already been voiceless also died,
9.. The bureaucracy was facing the music from all the quarters.,
10. The Modi-2 Govt was based in PMO and Ministry of Home.
11. The abrogation of Article 370 was followed by the CAA and Amit Shah started trumpeting that NRC all over India will soon follow.
Seshadri Chari and likes of him continued with their writings eulogising Narendra Modi and added Amit Shah also in their writings. This is where we are and Charis are continuing with singing Narendra Modi-Chalisa and Modi-Hare instead of saying that the actions with the emphasis of that targeted Muslim should have not been done.
Let’s wait for the History to judge the Govt in India as it will judge the coming of Donald Trump and the damage that the Govt did to their own countries, their immediate neighbours, and to the relations of their countries to the world at large,
Wow.. misinformation by the opposition is driving Bangladesh into China’s embrace! Nice way for the BJP to wash their hands off the foreign policy mess of their own making! Aapne chronology nahi samjhe?! Looks like Bangladesh did.
By that logic, I would like to ask whether the opposition did anything to drive Nepal into China’s hands?!
The government has only one approach to anyone who criticises or disagrees with them. Squeeze them to the ground!!
Dadagiri seems to be the keyword in our foreign policy. But even local dadas are nice to people in their immediate vicinity, something we apparently are not!
5 lakh Muslims are supposed to be infiltrators in Assam. If, as the author says, they will not be sent back, putting them in detention camps is not going to make Bangladesh feel any better.
You can’t say one thing, and do another. People are not fools. Nothing can be ‘said’ to prevent the ‘string of pearls’ from tightening around us. The government must simply ask itself whether winning one state election is worth losing India’s entire neighbourhood!!
“The protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA are because the provisions have been misunderstood and much misinformation about the law has been circulated by opposition parties with ulterior political motives. ”
For how long will BJP keep reiterating this bullshit?!
Bangladesh can sit on the lap of China but make no mistake, China will not allow a single illegal Bangladeshi to enter China. And for exporting fanatic ideology? China has camps ready made, and no democracy, and hence the world will never know if someone disappears.
China can always do better than India with any country! So India will have to carefully weigh pros and cons of any relationship. While what Mr. Chari says makes sense -that complex internal issues of India such as CAA and NRC can have external implications, it also requires Bangla Desh leadership to be able to handle these issues in a balanced manner. Otherwise, India will always be on weak terms compared to China. Of course, there are limits to what Chinese can do for Bangla Desh and conversely, Bangla Desh will soon realize unacceptable costs of being a Chinese pawn. Hopefully, both sides are able to handle the issue maturely and Bangla Desh continues its India friendly policies as before. The present state of relations between the two countries is excellent and it should continue to grow further.
While title of the article is indeed provocative in typical The Print style, the contents are mature, as expected from Mr. Chari!
What can one expect from Chari who defends everything the Hindu extremists do. You don’t need to read his article to get the message. It is very unfortunate that thinking people like him are blindly supporting inhuman policies and practices of the right(?) wing .
It is funny that Chari thinks CAA is innocuous and the opposition is drumming up protests against it for political gains. He wants protests to stop, but no reversal of CAA to allay the fears of Bangladesh. Does he think that all Bangladeshis are fools?
Very few termites are coming from Pakistan and Afghanistan. So majority termites are from Bangladesh and many of their relatives may be still living in that country. Forget about relatives, their countrymen will feel embarrassed when their people are made stateless in India. It will be an affront to their self-respect. The whole idea of CAA is our fellow feeling for persecuted Hindus in Muslim countries. Can anyone think that the reverse is not applicable?
CAA is demonitisation of citizenship. Earlier it is withdrawn, better for the country.
This newspaper never writes an article why the Hindus migrate from Bangladesh to India.
Millions of Indian staying in Bangladesh doing job illegally. Bangladeshi people will not go India where they have chances to go many other country. India cannot feed their country .how it possible that Bangladeshi feel Comfort there.when it is figured out all neighbour province of Bangladesh economic condition is poorer then Bangladesh. You said half country will go India. Lol
Why don’t you write and explain why Hindus are leaving in such a large number for other countries, and why the Hindus would leave Hindu India altogether, leaving it empty, if the countries like the US, UK, etc. throw their doors open to them.
if India opens its door to Bangladesh, half of Bangladesh would move to India and then another Kashmir movement will start. the author is so naive or intentionally clever.
That one cannot say, but the other half will swim across the Mediterranean to Italy.
Most of the illegal migrants to Europe are coming from Bangladesh, according to Washington Post.
What country are most of Europe’s illegal migrants coming from? You might think Syria or some other war-torn nation. You would be wrong. According to the International Organization for Migration, the top “sending” country is a democracy that claims to have made strides in human development: Bangladesh. The Washington Post
Oh give me a break..there are and will always have problems between any neighbouring countries in the world. Canada and USA both are rich countries and there are some people always crossing illegally between Canada and USA and vice versa.
Illegally crossing by the citizens of any neighbouring country is a very nominal problem and rich or poor countries are not immune from it either.
Now when comes to Bangladeshis, we are very proud people ( in fact citizens from every country should be proud of their country). We will never go anyplace if we are not welcomed there. But this only happens in books and movies. Every human being has the same rights to the mother earth. If given a choice, I am sure no one would want to go leaving his/ her motherland.
So please have empathy in your heart. Count the blessing that you are not in the same position like those crossed illegally. Don’t demonize the people. They are the same people like you and I.
I still say that not half the people will go to India given a choice rather some people will go to India. Remember we, the Indian, Bangladeshis and Pakistanis are not rich people on average.
Good. Ask them to go to China for treatment as well.
They don’t go for free treatment.They pay in dollar.
It’s an unwanted situation for India to be in. That said, without CAA, relationships with our neighbors will always ebb and flow AS China has a long-term plan of wooing India’s neighbors to its side with its loan-diplomacy, there by strangling India from all directions. CAA has been introduced at a very inopportune time complicating things further. The consequences of it will be clearly felt 20-30 years down the line.
It is not enough to be “ worried “. The foreign policy implications / costs of domestic politics is something the diplomatic corps, now so ably headed by one of their own, should constantly, effectively sensitise the government to.