Indian minorities at risk
AS moral standards and principles are being formed, the element of cruelty and blood thirstiness is also formed which is hidden in human nature, is spreading its roots.
The spirits kept crushing and who didn’t watch all these games? On the other hand, the colonial system is retreating and the brutal groups on the planet have started digging their paws.
There are people in the world who enjoy the blood of humanity. Extremist Jews in the Middle East have been forcibly imposed on Palestine and given a country. They are still chewing on the oppressed Palestinians.
The lion eats the living man while the situation in Occupied Kashmir is similar to this and the world is just sitting in the stadium and watching the spectacle.
Condemnations against this game of tyranny and barbarism are seldom seen. Speaking of India, where it has robbed the rights of the oppressed people of Occupied Kashmir, it has not spared even the minorities living in its own country.
There is noise. Not from today, but from the day it was passed in both the Houses of Parliament and then the so-called President of the Republic signed it and gave it the status of law.
The situation has been tense since that day. A petition was filed in the Supreme Court of India against it, arguing that it was against the spirit of the Indian Constitution and against secularism. And there are no two opinions on this.
About 60 petitions were filed against the law passed by the President of India by various institutions, civil society and other personalities of the country. However, some states have opposed its implementation.
More than two dozen people, mostly Muslims, have been killed in nationwide protests. On 13 January, a meeting of various parties was held on Parliament premises, led by the main opposition Congress Party, in which it was decided that the chief Ministers of the states who had made statements against the National Register of Citizens (NRC).
They say they should block the National Population Register (NPR) in their states. The three main parties, the Trinamool Congress of West Bengal, the Aam Aadmi Party of Delhi and the Bahujan Samaj Party of Uttar Pradesh, did not participate, but continued to oppose the bill and (NPR) is an illegal package that specifically targets the poor, backward classes, Dalits, linguistic and religious minorities and (NPR) is the basis of (NCR).
A motion has been moved in the European Parliament against India’s controversial citizenship law, which has been approved by the European Parliament for debate, while a referendum has been postponed until March.
It is possible that members are waiting for the Indian Supreme Court to rule on the controversial Citizenship Bill by March, in the light of the Indian Supreme Court’s decision. Along with the controversial Indian law, the European Parliament’s motion includes five other resolutions.
Parliament has approved them for debate, but it is too early to say what the European Parliament will decide. In the past, the National Register of Citizens was first used in the state of Assam, in which about two million people were removed from the citizenship list.
After the formation of Bangladesh, the arrival of Assamese people endangered their identity. Intense campaigning took place in the 1980s.
Eventually, the then Prime Minister of India reached an agreement with the people of Assam and called for an NRC, which was implemented following the orders of the Supreme Court and the ruling BJP.
Sehra took his head but when (NRC) did not come in the list of a large number of non-Muslim citizenship, so the BJP itself started talking against it from different factions and then the Home Minister Amit Shah announced that (NRC) will be implemented in the whole country.
Despite this, the bill has not been passed in the Rajya Sabha so far. The next parliamentary session will now take place only after the formation of a new government after the parliamentary elections. The controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill is gone, but the most important question remains.
The final list of citizens of Assam will be published in July this year. In the process, millions of residents are feared to be declared illegal immigrants.
What will happen to the millions of people of Assam who will lose not only citizenship but also nationality and state? Minorities have been exploited in India for the last seven decades, but since Narendra Modi came to power, the future of minorities has been further jeopardized and the land of India has been narrowed for them.
The racist and hateful attitude of Hindus against all these religions increased tremendously. In view of these circumstances, the Modi government has been termed as a serious threat to secularism and its actions are being considered as the last nail in the coffin of “secularism”.
—The writer is contributing columnist, based in Islamabad.
