Umar Khalid on Citizenship Bill.
| | | | | | | In a conversation with HuffPost India, Umar Khalid, “It makes you feel as if you are being ruled by a group of thugs who don’t care about the rule of law or the idea of the rule of law, co-existence, fraternity and democracy.”
The Bill, which makes religion the basis for citizenship and violates the principles of India’s secular constitution, was passed in the Bharatiya Janata Party-dominated Lok Sabha shortly after midnight today. Under the proposed bill, Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Parsis, Buddhists and Jains from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, who were living in India without papers, will be eligible to apply for Indian citizenship. Muslims will not. The Bill will now be tabled in the 245-member Rajya Sabha, where the BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is close to achieving a majority, but isn’t quite there yet. The past month has seen protests across North East India and in Assam in particular. |
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