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If only Hindus are natural citizens, it is a blow to India’s Citizenship Laws

prasad1

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Granting citizenship to Hindu refugees and making India “a natural home for persecuted Hindus” were among the promises made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his election manifesto. Modi, in a 2014 election rally, specifically promised citizenship to Hindu-Bangladeshis, saying that they would be removed from the migrant camps. Since then, the current government has taken many steps which may seem majoritarian and anti-Muslim.

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 may be presented as a move to protect the religious minorities in other countries from being persecuted but, the underlying issue clear: the bill is meant to address the BJP’s stated objective of making India the “Hindu Homeland.” The provisions blatantly ignore Muslims in the protection clauses and mention only religious minorities in Muslim-dominated countries. Further, the bill will change the demographics of the border states. The Bill adds to an ominous trend of a government which is not afraid of pushing a religious ideology, even when it is in contravention of the Constitution, in order to further its own political agenda.

https://thediplomat.com/2017/03/the-trouble-with-indias-new-citizenship-bill/
 
[FONT=&quot]Citizens of India’s north-eastern states have been protesting vigorously against a proposed new citizenship regime that they claim will “destroy their culture” in the region. The protests have been diverse and dramatic – petitions, hunger strikes, effigy-burning, a rebel militant group threatening to end talks with the Indian state.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]The source of their anger is the Citizenship Amendment Bill, first tabled in the lower house of the Indian Parliament in 2016. It is set to change the Citizenship Act of 1955, which has formed the basis of India’s citizenship regime since it gained independence from the British Empire in 1947. The amendment seeks to allow select “persecuted minorities” (Hindus, Christians, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhist and Jains) from the neighbouring countries of Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan citizenship status in India after six years of residency. Other groups must wait 11 years to become naturalised citizens.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In the north-eastern states, the fear is that this amendment would legitimise migration of Hindus from neighbouring Bangladesh in particular, potentially affecting the demographic make-up of the region.


When India achieved independence, its citizenship regime was established on the basis of jus soli (birth within a territory), meaning that people were members of the political community regardless of their religion or ethnicity. While mistrust of Muslims has persisted into present-day India, particularly in recent years with growing Hindu right-wing populism, the law has so far upheld the secular, non-religious character of the Indian state. The Citizenship Amendment Bill would fundamentally alter this basic tenet, shifting the basis of citizenship towards jus sanguinis (by right of blood).


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[FONT=&quot]But, as historians such as Joya Chatterji and Ornit Shanihave documented, there have been frequent challenges to the principle of citizenship by birth – especially in the period immediately after the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]In contrast to Muslims, Hindus were from the start considered “natural citizens” of India. Muslim citizens of pre-independence India were ostensibly given a choice between the two countries, but in practice they were subjected to arbitrary processes to “prove” their loyalty to the Indian state. Similar demands were not made of Hindu citizens crossing the border from the newly-formed Pakistan back into India.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Regardless of which states or regions would be most affected by a sizeable influx of migrants, the bill changes the character of Indian citizenship and the basis on which it is granted, moving from secular to overtly favouring specific groups – particularly Hindus. It opens the door for the creation of second-class citizenship for non-Hindus and most of all Muslims – not just in the extra-legal practices of discrimination and violence that exist today, but in the law.[/FONT]
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Such doubts arise mainly because of fractured partition.

When partition was inevitable, opinion from Hindus also should have been sought.

Everything re1uires professional approach.
 
Such doubts arise mainly because of fractured partition.

When partition was inevitable, opinion from Hindus also should have been sought.

Everything re1uires professional approach.


Chandruji no disrespect to your point, But don't you think rehashing partition is waste of time for others, sorry for you it is your preoccupation.

Chandruji, were you born after or before Partition.
If before then why did you not change it? If after none of us could change it. It is like water after the dam, you can not put it back.

Actually, all this because of human descended from Apes, if we had remained Apes then this partition would not have happened. Please get over it, it is spilled milk you can not change it. Birth of India is for history like any birth you can shove it back in the womb after 70+ years.


Let us live and solve today's problem.
 
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Chandruji no disrespect to your point, But don't you think rehashing partition is waste of time for others, sorry for you it is your preoccupation.

Chandruji, were you born after or before Partition.
If before then why did you not change it? If after none of us could change it. It is like water after the dam, you can not put it back.

Actually, all this because of human descended from Apes, if we had remained Apes then this partition would not have happened. Please get over it, it is spilled milk you can not change it. Birth of India is for history like any birth you can shove it back in the womb after 70+ years.


Let us live and solve today's problem.

Today's problem is due to yesterday's misadventures. Will you accept Sir.
 
Today's problem is due to yesterday's misadventures. Will you accept Sir.


Yes, but you also have to accept that we take SNAP action at any given time.
Like crossing a road etc.
There is no perfect time or perfect solution to any problem.
The creation of the universe, our Galaxy, our solar system, our planet earth, the continents, Kingdoms, invasion, a creation of the country, Partition, dissolution of a country into multiple nations, Families falling apart are all problems that has lead us to present time.

So just blaming partition alone is wrong. Secondly blaming alone does not solve the problem.

If we look back in our life, we might have(? except me) have made a wrong decision. In 99% of the cases, we can not reverse it either.

But we keep going forward.
 

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