Tavleen Singh: Citizenship legally weaponised
NB: This is an RSS scheme with full support of the government. It demonstrates the complete ideological subversion in broad daylight, of the Indian Union. DS
Amit Shah has said so often that he is going to hunt out Muslim “termites” and deport them that he leaves no doubt at all about the real purpose of the Citizenship Amendment Bill that the government hopes next week to make into law. There are things about the citizenship Bill that are deeply disturbing. Not least is the manner in which Home Minister Amit Shah routinely makes clear that it targets Muslims. He has said so often that he is going to hunt out Muslim “termites” and deport them that he leaves no doubt at all about the real purpose of the Citizenship Amendment Bill that the govern-ment hopes next week to make into law.
Amit Shah has said so often that he is going to hunt out Muslim “termites” and deport them that he leaves no doubt at all about the real purpose of the Citizenship Amendment Bill that the government hopes next week to make into law. There are things about the citizenship Bill that are deeply disturbing. Not least is the manner in which Home Minister Amit Shah routinely makes clear that it targets Muslims. He has said so often that he is going to hunt out Muslim “termites” and deport them that he leaves no doubt at all about the real purpose of the Citizenship Amendment Bill that the govern-ment hopes next week to make into law.
Last week, while campaigning in Jharkhand,
he once more made his speech threatening “termites”. It made me happy to see
that there was no response from the crowd. Not even when he asked why “Rahul
baba” was so upset that he was showing undue concern. “Where will they go, what
will they eat, how will they live, Rahul baba asks. I ask him, are they your
cousins?” Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati are right to
publicly oppose a law that seeks to leave it in the hands of petty officials to
determine who has a right to be Indian and who not. Most of the “termites” that
Shah so despises are very poor people who usually do not have documents to
prove if they are Indian or not. They will now be at the mercy of officials who
more often than not will use the law as a new source of inhumane extortion.
Last week, Ram Madhav tried to give the law
a ‘humanitarian’ spin by describing it as an exercise to deal with the “fallout
of Partition”. With the deepest respect, Ram Madhavji, I would like to say that
this is rubbish and you probably know this. Partition has nothing to do with this law.
As someone who belongs to a family of refugees from Pakistan, may I tell you
that the “fallout” of Partition was dealt with long ago. This new law is
nothing more than a majoritarian and very ugly exercise to prove to Indian
Muslims that in the ‘new India’, they have a lesser place than Hindus, Sikhs,
Buddhists, Jains and Christians and they better get used to this. The Prime Minister continues to remain
silent about this law but his closest confidant, the Home Minister,
concentrates on reminding us almost daily that Indian citizenship is no longer
anyone’s birthright. It will in future be treated as a privilege, especially
for Muslims. If they cannot prove that they are Indian, then they will end up
in detention camps or deported.....read more:
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/citizenship-legally-weaponised-6155936/see also
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