CAB and NRC

Read to understand and NOT judge!

So many Indians, love to bitch about ‘Hindu Muslim’ give anything with religion and everyone forgets other things that come with it. Some more illiterate ones want to just speak when they KNOW NOTHING about the core issue, and compare HITLER and Nazism almost everything, everywhere.

Citizenship Amendment Bill has reduced the number of years for naturalisation from 11 to 5 years. It DID NOT bar Muslims for applying for citizenship, however it relaxed it for other communities.

Whether you like this or not depends on whether you believe in the Two Nation Theory more, or equal treatment to all as secularism more. Whether you focus more on how the countries were established or how they are today.

Both of them have their merits and demerits and ONLY court can decide if there is intelligent and reasonable differentia or not, but 3 primary concerns with this entire bill that I have : 

1) How is religion determined !?

The Act does not say ‘born Hindu’ it just says Hindu or Christian. If a Pakistani Muslim converts into Hinduism, comes to India, gets the citizenship and converts back to Islam, what will you do !?

The bill doesn’t answer THIS. It will lead to fake mass conversion and if you think it will NOT happen or has never happened before, I’ll address it soon.

Also, what is persecution !? Are we adopting the definition from Rome Statute!? Or we have OUR OWN NOTION OF IT !?

Please search the profile Jaint Kumar on facebook itself, and please see how he lives as a HINDU in Pakistan. He from his words is persecuted in no way, and is STRONGLY anti India (he is patriotic nothing wrong in that). So if he randomly comes and applies for the citizenship, are we supposed to assume that he is persecuted by default !?

The bill, with an intention to protect the minorities of the neighbouring countries, could have been prepared better. It is so vague that even if respected KK Venugopal saves it by proving that it has an intelligible reasonable differentia, it is extremely difficult to see how there will be smooth application of it when everything isn’t as defined as it should be.

2) What are we going to do with the people who are held illegal immigrants!?

Do we pick them and throw them outside the border in Bangladesh!? How are we going to deport someone to Bangladesh who has lived in India for all their life !?!! Bangladesh is NOT going to accept them it’s a FACT so we drop them at the border and be like ‘TATA - Oka bye’ !???????

This will OBVIOUSLY result in Mass Refugee crisis the way Myanmar has done it and Yes NOT Hitler nor GENOCIDE. Myanmar’s citizenship law 1982 and Constitution 2008 had the same demands. Prove that you have been in this territory from this period, or your citizenship is cancelled. In the end they landed up making beggars as refugees too, because they had no documents to prove anything. WOW.

The ONLY difference is that in Myanmar Rohingyas had no right to appeal, however in India immigrants will get 120 day period to appeal, yet if someone has absolutely no family or possession to show how will they prove their citizenship!?

Are we in agreement with the other 3 countries!? where we can safely say that we won’t be violating our duty to not create refugees !?

3) The Assam Issue :

In 1960s and 70s, Assam saw what is known as the Assam Movement. In the census of 1961 and 1971, it was seen that the rise in the Assamese speakers was much higher than the increase in population itself. It meant many Bangladeshi Bengali speakers converted into Assamese speakers as to mingle with the local population, so if anyone feels people won’t CONVERT AGAIN, you are wrong about it.

Assamese felt the threat about their culture and language as the Bengalis grew in good numbers and saw them playing a major role in influencing their elections, hence an accord was signed between central, state govt. and leaders of Assam movement, and it was agreed that all illegal immigrants, regardless of religion, will be kicked out.

Now with NRC, they will throw all the immigrants out of Assam and then they’ll take all the Hindu and Christians back in with CAB and will give them official powers to influence Assam and Tripuras elections, culture, language and everything!!!

Why does anyone think Assamese will keep  HINDU identity above their culture and language !? Especially in a country where states were primarily formed on linguistic basis !?

I don’t know how many people are aware however the original Two Nation Theory was proposed in the year 1867 by Syed Ahmed Khan, ie. 2 years before Gandhi was even born, and 9 years before Jinnah was born; NOT on the line of religion BUT language.

The initial idea of Two Nation Theory was that Urdu & Persian speaking Muslims can’t live with Hindi and related language speaking Hindus. Scholars agree that Jinnah and others just translated it into religion, while it actually was a fight of language.

Later, Bangladesh itself got separated form Pakistan because they did not accept the supremacy of Urdu over their Bangla.

Considering these conditions, how appropriate is it to let Bangla speaking Bangladeshis into Assam officially on the ground of non Muslim identity !?

How happy were Marathis when Biharis started migrating in their state !?

The govt. then has to ensure no Bangladeshi immigrant settles in Assam or Tripura or else we have recently tried solving The age old Kashmir issue, our future generation will be busy solving Assam’s. Internet had to be CUT, definitely should speak volumes how Strongly CAB has been opposed there.

P.S : This is a law which is way too important to be drafted so vaguely. NRC and CAB can’t be read separately and it is highest level of IGNORANCE to see its merits and demerits only on the lines of ‘Secularism’ and ‘Two Nation Theory’ ; its improper execution will lead to so many negative consequences that none of us will be able to deal with.