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.
When the partition occurred in 1947, the SC/STs decided to take sides with Muslim League and Pakistan rather than throw their weight with India, treating India as a country of caste Hindus. But, for Islamic bigots all Hindus are Kaffirs, irrespective of their caste. Now, nearly seven decades later, the progeny of those Hindus are waiting to become citizens of India. What a paradox! Who else but India will accept them?