| AWSCJ organizes lecture on CAA, NPR, NRC | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 12: Association for Welfare of Senior Citizens Jammu (AWSCJ) today organized a lecture on the topic of CAA, NPR and NRC.
K.B. Jandial former IAS officer was main guest, who threw light on the background, history and necessity of the infinitives of the government in the matter.
He pointed out that CAA seeks to do justice with the illegal immigrants (minorities) who had fled back to India after persecution on religious basis in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The immediate pressure to legislate this law probably came from the declaration of 19 lakh persons as "non-Indian" by Supreme Court monitored NRC on 31 August this year. It had more Hindus than Bengali Muslims. Again referring to CAA, how is it anti-Muslims, he added that it is not meant to take away anyone's citizenship, but to confer citizenship on persecuted minorities. It has no linkage with Indian Muslims or any other citizen.
The Act will ease the lives of refugees of Partition and provide them a dignified life by allowing them access to the government's welfare schemes. But the Opposition has succeeded in creating scare among Muslims clubbing it with NRC which is sustaining the protests, he said.
According to Jandial, Modi Govt seemed to be keen to implement its agenda on which it had got massive mandate. It has a democratic right to do so by following prescribed democratic processes. Intriguingly, all these laws were originally enacted by the Congress Govt and BJP is using these to implement its agenda by suitably amending these.
With projection as anti-Muslim Act, India's relations with some friendly nations in Middle East and South Asia have been impacted. Leave aside Pakistan which is always on lookout for opportunities to corner India diplomatically; other friendly Islamic nations are too resentful on this move. Relations with Gulf countries which PM Modi has transformed, too seem to be under strain.
Whereas Indian constitution provides a secular nation, the constitutions of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh provide for Islamic State. It is a fact that minorities in East and West Pakistan (Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi and Christian) had undergone or feared persecution because of their religion and some of them fled to India, with or without valid documents, and sought shelter and continued to stay till date, he observed.
A discussion on the subject was also held and the participants adopted a resolution to support the action of the Government. |
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