If this had been the quality of your posts earlier, a great deal of high blood pressure would have been avoided.
I type from my mobile. Sometimes the new AI picks the most commonly used words and it comes as suggestions especially whenever I quote something.
I meant to say Bangladesh instead of migrants in that particular sentence. I meant to say if all illegals had been Muslims the govt wouldn't have even bothered to bring up CAA in the first place. This law was bought to protect Hindu illegal migrants who through are BJP's biggest votebanks. While protestors in Assam do not want anyone to get to stay there, that's not what BJP thinks. I am not saying throw the Muslims out. It would be impossible to throw anyone out after 20-30 years of staying in the country even if they are illegals. I never said that.
First, I was unwilling to believe that you were suggesting that this bill was brought in to allow the BJP to bring in Hindu illegal migrants. But you are. So on looking at what you are saying with a new look, it seems to me that you are neither supporting nor opposing the real situation but you are interested in reporting reality.
This reality: what is it? It is that the Assamese want all the illegals out. It is that the section of the Assamese themselves that are in power now, through an opportunistic use of the BJP and its manipulative power, want to retain the Hindu illegals, but reject the Muslim illegals.It is that throwing the Muslims out will not be easy; not because what
@Arulmozhi Varman says is correct, that someone who has been here for 20 to 30 years cannot be thrown out, that it is impossible, but because there is no implementation of 'throwing out' is possible, or even practical.
Let us move to the next step in the argument.
As for support of local people, that will be known in the next Assam elections. It's not far away.
Unfortunately this is a movable feast. What the electorate thought some years ago, what it thought at the time of the last elections, and what it thought after the perceived betrayal over the issue of the NRC and the results of the commission that decided citizenship eligibility are three different things.
Not sure whether you choose to ignore the points I make or genuinely do not understand. I was pretty clear. The first para deals why the BJP brought in CAA, mainly to protect one community. Next one deals with NRC, which many fear is linked to the CAA. NRC, on which both INC and BJP feel it's required.
Now the point about your clinical review of the reasons for the introduction of the CAA is understood. It was to protect the Hindus.
Next the point about the NRC. You say that is something on which both the INC and the BJP are agreed. Some confusion here: were you referring to the NRC peculiar to Assam and the Assam problem, or were you referring to the NRC on the national level that is contemplated for the near future?
As for third side, what options do they have? Let's say out of 20-22 crore Muslims, 2-3 crores doesn't have valid documents. Do anyone think they will be sent to detention centres? Who will fund it? India will be placed under sanctions and strife will overcome this nation.
We have seen these idiots take one rash and disastrous step after another. What gives us the confidence to think that we can safely dismiss the possibility of their declaring, say, between 2 and 3 crores of Muslims as non-citizens of India? And worse - then doing something disastrous with these newly-discovered non-citizens?
BJP has done things which they promised in their manifesto. They didn't promise to disenfranchise Muslims. I am sure there are lots of reasonable leaders other an AS to steer the party of such unnecessary controversies.
They didn't promise to demonetise either.
There is fear and then there is fear mongering. BJP and Congress are experts at it.
So you have never ever read any news of BD migrants found in southern states and deported?
Have you? Can you give us some examples?
Just said even genuine Bengali migrants in other states will be harrased wrt CAA.
That has already started with a tent camp in Bengaluru. Are you making the harrassment of genuine Bengali workers a positive factor in favour of the policy that the BJP is following?
I recognize the fear in which citizens of this nations feel they might be made disenfranchised. Nowhere did I deny such an prospect. It would be easy for you since you have taken an clear cut position that India doesn't need an CAA or an NRC.
I am of the position India needs both with ample protection process in between. That's the reason I support some points, recognise fear in some aspects and also oppose some issues. Not everything is supposed to be in binary. CAA needed for protecting minorities of our neighbouring countries (including SL) and NRC for documenting our citizens and making sure no more illegals atleast in the future.
That's a minority. The problem as Joe identified is not giving citizenship to illegal Muslims. Even if INC was there, there would be no way of illegal Bengali Muslims getting citizenship. But the fear that current citizens might be disenfranchised if NRC is linked to CAA.
Protestors and other included (me as well) has to ensure NRC is not linked to CAA and probably bring a new law for which it should be based.