Controversy around citizenship amendment bill
Ever since this country got independence, the nation hadn’t seen such divisive and ill minded government. No other government gave so much troubles to people as much as this government did, continuing to assault and defeat the tenets of constitution in the last four and half years since they have been in power.
Decisions such as demonetization, universal linking of Aadhar, GST and other pushed the people of this country into difficult situations. The silent encouragement that the government gave to Gau Rakshaks caused a lot of damage to people and their lives.
Now after all this damage the government has decided to bring in amendment to the citizenship bill, which will create more hardship to people.
In its election manifesto in 2014, the BJP had said all the illegal Hindu immigrants from Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan and other countries would be accorded the citizenship. The bill would be brought in to fulfil this promise.
This is one part of the communal agenda of the BJP because in the current bill, the word Hindu is nowhere mentioned in reference to the bill. But, all the others who have entered India prior to 2014, except for the Muslims, would be granted citizenship of the country.
This has been vehemently opposed in North Eastern states. Asom Gana Parishad which helped the BJP form the government has also said the same thing because it would be wrong to perceive the immigrants on the basis of their faith, India being a sovereign country.
The BJP which has been engaging in politics using this illegal immigration as the core topic, suddenly bringing up this bill shows the depths that the party is plundering in the recent times. The bill was passed in the lower house even amidst the opposition of Asom Gana Parishad. If the upper house passes this, it can be implemented. But this has been opposed in north eastern states.
Our Prime Minister probably does not know what he is speaking about and he does not seem to understand anything apart from the lessons of hatred he was taught at the RSS Shakha. He does not respect constitution or has his own reading ability much like the last BJP PM Vajpayee who was a statesman.
He went to Kerala and spoke against the Supreme Court verdict on the issue of women being allowed to worship inside the temple. Would he have the semblance to speak sense about the immigrants of Assam?
The Citizen Amendment Act is much against the concept of India. To consider faith as the pertinent factor to grant citizenship is much against the principles of democracy. All the illegal immigrants were born and have lived in north eastern states. What does it mean when the government says they will not get the citizenship if they are not born to hindu parents? To discriminate between its own subjects is never a good thing for a nation.
This bill can never be defended. Protests have been held in Assam and other NE states against this. This bill may help consolidate hindu votes, but this would defeat the very purpose of solidarity and integrity of the nation.
Even to offer 10% reservation to economically backward upper castes is something that cuts against the principles of the constitution. No one can defeat the Modi team in taking controversial measures. The government has always been keen on shutting the voice of dissidence with the polls drawing close.
The government is all set to destroy JNU by way of foisting cases on Kanhaiya Kumar, Khalid and the others by charging them with sedition. This is a three year old case that has got fresh lease of life right at the time of elections.
Because Kanhaiya Kumar has expressed his desire to fight LS elections from Bihar. This is a case of settling scores. This path taken by the Modi government is that of Fascist and dictatorial one. People will give a befitting answer to this in the upcoming elections. The response given by the people of five states which defeated the BJP is resounding enough.
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ECI website faces outage amid vote counting in Jharkhand, Maharashtra
New Delhi: Election Commission of India’s official results website ‘results.eci.gov.in’ has reportedly experienced a technical outage on Saturday morning, at a time when India closely watches the high-stakes Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly poll battle.
Visitors visiting the site were met with non-functional links and a generic “counting in progress” message, leaving them without updated election data. The ECI has not issued an official explanation for the disruption.
Vote counting, which began at 8 a.m. with postal ballots, is underway for 288 assembly seats in Maharashtra and 81 in Jharkhand. Early trends suggest a lead for the BJP-led Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra, currently ahead in 141 seats, while the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is leading in 96. In Jharkhand, the BJP-led NDA is ahead in 43 seats, while the ruling JMM-led alliance is trailing with leads in 33 constituencies.
Additionally, counting is underway for 48 assembly bypolls across 13 states and two parliamentary seats, Nanded in Maharashtra and Wayanad in Kerala.
