India’s Citizenship Law, In Tandem With National Registry, Could Make Bjp’s Discriminatory Targeting Of Muslims Easier – By Soumya Shankar
For more than a month, India has been awash with protests. Triggered by the December 12 passage of the highly contentious Citizenship Amendment Act, hundreds of thousands of people, many of them students, have taken to the streets in defiance of the latest in a string of anti-Muslim policies rolled out by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP.…
The anti-CAA protests are an unprecedented show of resistance against Modi’s BJP, and they come on the heels of several moves by the Indian government in recent months that seem designed to punish Muslims. In early August, the BJP amended the constitution to strip Kashmir, an embattled Muslim-majority region, of its autonomy. Then, in November, the Indian Supreme Court issued a ruling enabling the construction of a Hindu temple on the site of a 16th-century mosque desecrated more than two decades ago by Hindu nationalists in the city of Ayodhya.…
As the Modi government continues to contradict itself on its citizenship policies, a closer look at the registry in Assam helps illustrate what its expansion could mean for India’s minorities – and how the seemingly separate policies of the Citizenship Amendment Act and the registry could intersect to penalize Muslims.…
https://theintercept.com/2020/01/30/india-citizenship-act-caa-nrc-assam/
SEE ALSO:
- A New Law In India Threatens Their Muslim Minority – By Chris Wilson (Jan 31, 2020, National Interest)
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/new-law-india-threatens-their-muslim-minority-119456 - India’s Muslims Are Fighting for Their Religion. Should They Display It, Too? – By Raksha Kumar (Jan 24, 2020, Foreign Policy)
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/24/india-muslims-religion-kashmir/ - India’s new protest battlefield: ambulances and hospitals – By Anoo Bhuyan (Jan 27, 2020, Ozy)
https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/the-latest-battlefield-in-indias-protests-hospitals-and-ambulances/268097/ - States boycotting NPR can cause a constitutional crisis – By Harsh Mander (Jan 31, 2020, Indian Express)
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rescuing-the-republic-citizenship-act-mahatma-gandhi-6243240/lite/
