In the Assam manifesto, BJP has also promised a \u2018correct NRC\u2019 along with jobs for the youth and cycles for girl students.<\/p>\n
The announcement of the CAA is not greeted with enthusiasm among the Assamese people for there is a large influx of refugees in Assam and they see that as a potential threat to drown out their culture.<\/p>\n
However, in the rest of India, the CAA is resisted for different reasons, basically a fear among all people that if they cannot prove their citizenships through ancestral family papers, which incidentally, very few will have, millions may be thrown to detention camps, which have already been built.<\/p>\n
On 27 November 2019, the Government disclosed that 1043 people were housed in six detention centers in Assam. The existing centers are currently being run from the district jail premises at Dibrugarh, Silchar, Tezpur, Jorhat, Kokrajhar, and Goalpara in Assam, so this is setting up a stir in Assam.<\/p>\n
The provisions of the Bill were as follows:\u00a0 In 2016, the Bill was introduced to amend the Citizenship Act, 1955.\u00a0 \u00a0The 2019 Bill seeks to make illegal migrants who are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, eligible for citizenship. It exempts Muslims and certain areas in the North-East from this provision.<\/p>\n
The Citizenship Amendment Act is considered to be axing the soul of secular India by exempting a community (Muslims) from a law for the first time.\u00a0 It is argued that there are no borders or absolutes on who might need refuge.\u00a0 A Muslim may be equally persecuted in another country, thus to base citizenship on religion is squashing equality, fraternity and religious harmony.<\/p>\n
On quoting Justice Richard Goldstone, Honorary President of the International Bar Association\u2019s Human Rights Institute, he stated that the law was constitutionally groundless weakening\u00a0 India\u2019s most basic tenets. \u2018The CAA causes deep concern for those who, for many years, have admired the implementation of the rule of law and the recognition of the equality of all the people of India. The Constitution of India provides for \u201ca sovereign socialist secular democratic republic.\u201d To discriminate against immigrants on the basis of their faith is inimical to both a secular and a democratic state. Its constitutionality must clearly be doubted,\u2019 he says. \u2018The CAA is a serious blemish on the hitherto proud record of democracy in India.\u2019<\/p>\n
The effect of the Bill was an escalation of Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim sentiment. Hundreds of thousands of people have protested against the CAA, in demonstrations that have been met at times by violent police response. Some protests have led to riots.\u00a0 Scores have been injured and more than 34 people have been killed.\u00a0 The Delhi riots were triggered by the CAA protests and 51 people were killed in these.<\/p>\n
Thus JP Nadda\u2019s statements of implementing CAA to a resisting Assamese population may guarantee the loss of the BJP-ruled state Assam, in the upcoming elections.<\/p>\n