The Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA, is a law passed by the Indian Parliament in 2019. It aims to amend the country’s citizenship laws, defines illegal immigrants and lays down the rules and prerequisites for applying for Indian citizenship. It allows minorities of six communities, namely Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians, from India’s neighboring countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan, or Bangladesh — who entered India before 31 December 2014 to get citizenship more easily on the grounds of religious persecution.
The introduction of this bill led to mass protests from students, civil society, and the opposition parties as religion for the first time was made a test of Indian citizenship. The most notable was a 100-plus day protest in Shaheen Bagh, a working-class Muslim neighbourhood in the country’s capital, New Delhi with Muslim women at the forefront of this protest.
Four years after the CAA’s initial introduction and passing, the rules were brought into effect in March 2024.
So person blocking the roads and creating trouble for ordinary citizen is secular and a person demanding that main roads need to be free of obstruction is bigoted and communal??
Hate speeches can’t be defined in words as hate and love are mirror image of perceptions. What can be defined and implemented is LIES. Political leaders, journalists, authors and social activists should be prosecuted for lies as courts can always prove lies. If lies can be removed from speeches, hate or love can become rational.
I want Pragya Thakur on that committee. 😀