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.
Jaypal…. Enjoy from 1:13 >>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28CWbymxBeA
What a delightful conclusion to an eventful decade!
They are safe because lifelong democrats like me and others in the Indian American diaspora will be switching party affiliation to GOP. For sure not voting for the 3 clowns mentioned in the article. Not a personal fan of Trump per se but idiots like Jaypal will make sure that we vote Republican. As it is it’s clear the Democrats do not care for the legal immigrants.
If these Indian Americans are so concerned about India, let them renounce their US citizenship , become Indian citizens and stand in the election, win and lead the country. It is damn easy to pass comments for publicity.
They are torn between two – India and US – for personal gain. None of them have interest of any one of the countries. Only personal. That is the real hypocrisy.
When you are close to the tree, you do fail to differentiate a tree from a forest.. They may think they got credit but it is all polite diplomatic response/feedback. No respect et al in diplomacy.
The print fails miserably in putting forward it’s propaganda to mislead people by citing future discourse.
Will The Print advise Indians how previous Congress govt. helped India by their actions and strategies.
India during their tenure was being considered as a weak Nation with whom anyone can pressurized or negotiate on their term, but now with present Modi govt. the situation us totally reverse.
This nonsense of “Global Censure” needs to be seen in perspective. India is not a weak and downtrodden country as it was after the aftermath of independence. We are a regional power and the fourth-largest economy in the world. The world is counting on our economic growth to fight recession.
This should put some spine in us. Learn from China. It gives two hoots about “global censure”.
The world is counting on our economic growth to fight recession … No longer.
Rajdeep – the last big transformative change was during PVN Rao. Some people seem to suggest that it is only in the last 6 years things have gone downhill. No one is giving points to this BJP government for its dull-headed responses, but this has been a consistent pattern since UPA II came into power. As far as China is concerned, it may be siting on a pile of cash, but that cash will have no value when potential lucrative investment destinations decide to go slow. This is a faced paced movie; much will be unravelled in the coming decade.
A few articles back some of the prolific commentators on this website were also suggesting that those Indians who have taken up citizenship and sworn allegiance to the Queen OR the constitution of the US should mind their own business as they have no stake in Indian politics any more. How does P. Jayapal qualify on that parameter? Or do these prolific commentators believe in “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
The author ignores Rep. Jayapal’s intention to rake up India-bashing as a domestic campaign strategy to overcome her unpopularity.
There’s no reason why India’s MEA has to to play foil to her talking points.
The liberal anti-capitalists in the US have a big problem. They can only rake up identity politics to gain traction from the far-left; not realizing that they come across as hindu-phobic.
Biased report.
One statement one cannot endorse : Foreign policy is for today, not one year hence. I think both FS and EAM – sometimes we get two for the price of one – should actually be looking fifty years ahead, and set objectives and goalposts accordingly. Even if they are navigating the future in smaller instalments of time, coterminous with administrations at home and abroad. 2. As for meeting with Representative Pramila Jayapal, invited by Chairman Engel, there was no need to see red. In fact, Mr Engel called off the meeting when the Indian side asked that she be excluded.
Jayshankar was sent to deploy his honed diplomatic skills to advance the Indian interest — which is to turn-around the negative in those in the US Congress who do NOT have ‘open minds’. Hmmm.
But, as Minister, if Jayshankar had met Jaypal, he would have been the target of political criticism when he came back, given the circumstances. What External Affairs Minister Jayshankar could perhaps have done was to invite Jaypal, separately . “My apologies for being unable to juggle my time-table. May I invite you to my favourite restaurant in DC serving the best Uttappams outside Chennai ? “. If she accepted, Jaypal would have been at the table in the company of a virulent, anti-democrat Republican, “who I just met, by accident, as I came out of my hotel”. If she demurred, it is jaypal who would have been in a fix. If Jaypal gate-crashed anyway, he could have said (in Tamil, perhaps?): Oh! You have deprived me of Uttapams! And then gone on to demolish her right in front of all the others.
Oops! Am I attempting to suggest footwork to a consumate exponent of diplomatic Kathak?
🙂 you are suggesting that the old dog should learn new tricks, while the “consummate exponent” knows well it is not worth it because one cannot win them all. Plus, these countries have their own mess to clear before they can become beacons of morality. The list of violations is long and Jaypal would do herself a favour by looking inwards. Perhaps she can start with educating herself with the history of her adopted country, which includes the massacre of unarmed protestors in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
And btw the president at the time of massacre was a Democrat.
I think jaishankar did the right thing.
The author is wrong. Pete Buttigieg is the fourth, NOT THIRD, Democrat who criticised Jaishankar’s refusal to talk to Pramila Jayapal. The third Democrat after Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren was Senator Kamala Harris, who has said that “It’s wrong for any foreign government to tell Congress what members are allowed in meetings on Capitol Hill,”
Congressman Jim McGovern, also a Democrat, said “no foreign government should dictate who is or isn’t allowed into meetings on Capitol Hill.” He also “applauded” Congressman Engel for not succumbing to the Indian pressure.
belligerence ?
Are we sovereign state or dictation state like neighbour
Visitor without notice & then also we are at fault, amazing.
You are a sovereign state that also takes dictation! India stopped, against its wishes, to import oil from Iran, under the threat of sanctions from the US. THUS iNDIA STOPPED IMPORTING OIL FROM iRAN LAST MAY, AND HAD TO LOOK FOR OTHER SOURCES, not so cheap.
A simple answer to you “ What if 2020 sees a presidential upset in America? Will Jaishankar’s refusal to engage with America’s Democrats today upset the bipartisan nature of the Indo-US relationship?” is a BIG NO.
It is amazing that a journalist of your experience, who perhaps has witnessed so many ups and downs, starting Nixon-Kissinger-Indira, think that it is important to acquiesce to every whim and fancy of West policy makers and media. Grow up!!!
As usual you completely miss what the author has written.
Reading comprehension is not your forte.
No time to read insipid articles. The use of the word ‘belligerence’ itself shows its shallowness. Jai Hind.
JAI HIND! I wish life were so simple.
Is it so difficult to understand that India lives in the real world? That India is not China that has economic and military power to resist the US, and that India doesn’t have that power? That these endless discussions of Modi and Shah will damage India as a destination for foreign investments which India badly needs to find working for its millions of young people? That this exercise will damage the interest of Indian engineers and technicians working abroad? That maybe the next time there will be no Nadella and Pichai because Indians will be seem through the filter of mistrust?
Think again. Jai Hind again! And I hope soon you will be saying Jai Bharat as Hind smells of Hindustani ;).