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 exceptional cruelty with which the police dealt with students in Jamia Millia and AMU is something that will come back to haunt the authorities. We continue to disregard Justice Chandrachud’s advice that dissent is like a safety valve for democracy.
Yes, it reminded me of the Jallianwala massacre — without any prompt from Sonia Sena.