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.
Very interesting article. I was at a protest yesterday by Assamese people in Goa opposing the CAB, and I too wasn’t sure I entirely agreed with what they wanted. It’s going to be a tough task to get the rest of India behind the northeast’s protests here, given that their stand is fundamentally discriminatory, while the ‘liberal’ stand is against discrimination of any sort. I don’t really know how to resolve this, but you’re right in saying that we can’t forget them while in the grip of the larger movement.
Read my opinion article to understand my view.
https://link.medium.com/BeQ2qBHXy2
Ruhi Tewari is stone-deaf on the “Jihadi” slogans raised by two “enlightened” Kerala students (or aunties?) of Jamia. After all “The Print” has to protect its
pseudo-secular image to ply its business of Modi-Bashing!
THIS article is regarding ASSAM – in case you didn’t notice. For Jamia, see other articles. HOW can the writer in THIS article talk about Jamia?
Kashmir Muslims donot want to live with Hindus , wants to go to Pakistan and oppose 370,35a . Pakistani Muslims want to live in India with Hindus and oppose CAA.
ALL THIS DRAMA TO DEFAME MODI SARKAR AND FOIST GA*VA E *IND.
Jamia Milia was hardly in news either for good or bad reason. Just another mediocre university. It has usurped JNU students’ right to go on rampage. I wonder why only the Muslims are protesting in rest of India other than NE, and not Christians. Why are the Christains not worried about CAA? Any guesses? People who have something to hide are afraid of this law.
Idiot! You are commenting WITHOUT reading the laws: Christians are included under CAA. So no protests from them.
CAA is passed with a big majority in both houses of the Parliament, any objections to it should now be taken to SC. Any political opposition must be expressed peacefully and without any violence. If unfortunately SC also declares CAA as lawful and if these sickulars and leftist still believe that India must have a law for allowing migrants persecuted for any reasons from all over the world, they should come together and press for such law. In fact, Father of the nation, Gandhi would have approved this law too. This can be a good consolidating point for the opposition with Mamata leading from the front. In the meanwhile, CAA can be treated as interim measure and first step towards that direction. However, as of now stop all violence and misinformation about CAA; otherwise only BJP will benefit as it happened in case of Rafale or Art 370 or Balakot or surgical strikes!!.
The views expressed in the above article are valid and important. Central government which has always stood with N_E must take steps to remove fears of all N-E states. The government is right in not allowing muslims from neighboring countries to be citizen of India. India is not the first to stop muslims from taking refuge. (Illegal migrants are different from refugees). USA has stopped. Its Supreme Court has endorses this. Just imagine , neighboring countries pushing terrorists as illegal migrants in India.
Think of a fission trigger which is required to set up a fusion reaction. It is true that the concerns the Assamese have long expressed over being reduced to a minority in their own state may not capture the national imagination. [ However, images of the north east being set alight do not burnish the incumbent’s governance credentials ]. However the CAB protests may have originated and while these are still largely confined to students, the resonance they are finding all over the country must worry the government. Also the ruling party, for they have the potential to once again unite an opposition that had splintered after its numbing defeat in May. 2. Once the results from Jharkhand and Delhi are known, it will be clearer whether religious polarisation is still working electorally. Whether it suffices to overcome the harm that is being caused by a India’s economic collapse.