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| CAA’s Pak connection | | | Parliament of India passing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) may have triggered a row in the country but this Act has made one thing clear that minorities especially in Pakistan were turning into a history. The CAA passed by the Parliament has become a law. It is aimed at granting Indian citizenship rights to the members of the persecuted minority communities i.e. Hindu, Sikhs, Christians and Parsis, from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The CAA becoming a law, according to the government, has helped thousands of people, who had fled these countries and were living in India.
These people are no more refugees in India now and have become full-fledged Indian citizens. The CAA doesn’t include Muslims from these countries as the government has said that no Muslim could be discriminated in these countries as Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan are Islamic Republics.
Recently Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a rally at Kolkatta in West Bengal said that the CAA has managed to draw the attention of the international community towards the miserable plight of the minority religious groups in Pakistan. “CAA might have given rise to disputes but these people would have never known how badly minorities were treated in Pakistan,” PM Modi said. Since the day the CAA has been passed in the Parliament, massive protests have erupted in different parts of the country as the Muslims are being told that they would lose their citizenship after the Government of India decides to implement National Register of Citizens across the country. The opposition parties spearheading the protests against the CAA seem to be in no mood to relent. These parties have dismissed the PM’s clarification that NRC has not been discussed at any platform and no such proposal is on cards. He once again reiterated in west Bengal that the CAA was about giving citizenship and not stripping anyone of the citizenship.
PM Modi by highlighting the plight of members of the minority communities in Pakistan has driven home a point that these people cannot be left to fend for themselves and India is ready to welcome them.
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