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CAA and NRC had caused a major stir in the country only a few months back.
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Protesters and police got hurt, murdered, lynched and whatnot. What most people don't know is what both the acts actually are and how they had impacted the mindset of people and caused such a rage all over the country.
Wikipedia defines both of them as -
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as migrants who had entered India by 31 December 2014, and had suffered "religious persecution or fear of religious persecution" in their country of origin were to be made eligible for citizenship. The amendment also relaxed the residence requirement for naturalisation of these migrants from twelve years to six.
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) is a registry maintained by the Indian government containing names & certain information of Indian citizens in Assam. However, Home Minister Amit Shah declared during a parliamentary session that the register would be extended to the entire country.
There has been mainly three groups of people who had been protesting against this.
As most of the migration will happen in the north-eastern part of India, people of North-East, especially Assam, feel threatened. Their native culture is unique and less and with more people of different race permanently living in their region, the fear of becoming the minority in their own homeland is not unreasonable. The jobs and resources are already scarcely available for their own people, let alone afford hundred thousands of immigrants.
The other group of people who are protesting against this Act is Indian Muslim. While the amendment in citizenship law is not a threat itself but when chronologically followed by NRC, it becomes a major issue. Let's follow an example- if there's an economically poor, illiterate Muslim person who fail to provide any legitimate document (that is acceptable by the government to prove their citizenship), will he/she be declared as illegal immigrant? What will be their future? Moreover, the neighbouring countries (Bangladesh) have already refused to take back any citizen. Our government has to prove to the other countries that they are in fact their citizens, immigrants to Indians.
Some of the people want to preserve the secular nature of India. As the government claimed to give the persecuted minorities a life of dignity and grace, then why are the tortured Rohingyas of Myanmar and Tamilians in Sri Lanka not accepted? If this law is set on humanitarian grounds, those people equally deserve a chance.
Other drawbacks and failed propaganda of this Act-
•Most of the Bangladeshi immigrants have been residing in our country due to their own personal reasons - for a better life through better economic means.
•How will the government actually differentiate between the persecuted people and those who came for the sole purpose of betterment of their lives?
•Amit Shah said, "ghuspathiyo ko bahar nikalna chahiye" (we must remove the infiltrators.)
•Let's take another example- if there is a Muslim infiltrator amongst us and he forges documents as any other religion or converts his religion but in his heart and mind still remains an infiltrator, how will this law protect us exactly?
As there are no medical tests or physical appearance tests that can prove their true intentions.
Implementation of NRC in Assam alone had cost more than 1600 crores INR (more than 212M USD). If this were to be implemented all across the country, the expenditure will cost around 10,00,000 lakh crores INR (around 133B USD), equivalent to 3 national budgets.
With the already weakened economy of the country, this expenditure seems totally unnecessary.
This entire project feels like a waste of time, money and energy. There are loads of issues that need immediate addressing - failing automobile industry, broken manufacturing sector, mass privatisation of government sectors and GDP rate falling to half which hinders all the golden future of becoming a developed country.
Stay safe, everyone.
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