pankajs wrote:The protest it not about CAA, which is already a law, but to prevent NRC Act from being enacted. Even if BJP does not back-off, it is to scare the other parties whose support will be needed to pass it in RS.
NRC, by itself, cannot be opposed because it will look anti-national so they have chosen to go with this and scare the hell out of the rest of the parties.
As someone (@Sivab ???) pointed out NRC may not need a parliamentary approval but the core logic remains i.e. to prevent NRC.
https://indianexpress.com/article/opini ... t-6175657/
What the young say
[By Najeeb Jung] {Very legit to deflect from the main protagonist}
Implementation of nation-wide NRC will put India in a state of conflict. Government must listen, step back
There have been signs that anxiety was building up among the youth for some years now. The initial manifestation came with the agitation following the unfortunate suicide of Rohith Vemula in January 2016 in Hyderabad, which highlighted the callousness and insensitivity of university administrations towards Dalit students. At the same time, JNU was simmering: Its vice-chancellor had done enough to damage what is arguably the most outstanding university in India. Harsh actions against students and faculty, locking up of spaces to curb the movement of students within the campus, restrictions on speech caused umbrage in universities not just in India but across the academic world. There have been protests elsewhere too. Adding to this anger is the fact that there are few jobs available to students leaving universities.
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It is tragic that Jamia’s authorities did not counsel the students towards restraint. The students had no senior leader to turn to. In fact, it is devastating that the Muslim community has no seasoned leadership to turn to. Its leadership has fallen into the hands of poorly educated, backward-looking, conservative maulanas. And, with palpable antagonism from the government, young Muslims have no one to turn to.
So far, most Muslim students in leading universities have been removed from negative influences. But anxieties and frustrations run high among them. Statements of ministers and ruling party spokespersons that the NRC will be implemented across India have only increased their anxiety. There have been reports of detention camps coming up in some states. The government is pushing increasingly provocative policies and using tactics like shutting down the internet to stifle dissent and free speech. The CAA was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.
While the constitutionality of the CAA is for the Supreme Court to judge, the India-wide NRC is the immediate cause for concern. Originally meant only for Assam, it is intended to be extended to all of India. Such an exercise is understandably feared for its potential to disenfranchise millions of Indian Muslims.
1. Try to portray it as a generic "youth" anxiety and bring in all kind of extraneous incidents to justify. Well, Modi got a thumping majority even after those incidents. The is just a cover for communal agenda.
2. All fault is to be blamed on others. The BJP, the University, etc. Standard.
3. Then the admission comes ... Muslims are frustrated, the most proximate trigger being CAA and impending NRC, though the frustration can be traced back to the previous 5 years.
4. "
reports of detention camp .. in some
states" is a common ploy used by jurnos to lie .. see he saw/read "reports" about "states". Indian Express, with its resources, should have been able to tell us exactly which states are definitely building detention camps and which are in the process and who ordered thm. BUT agenda uuncha rahe hamara!
5. GOI's policy is to implement is manifesto and uphold law and order .. but trust a jurno to make is sound sinister.
6. Finally CAA opened the doors to NRC and NRC is the cause of all the anxiety for the community. Rest of jobs, internet, etc are just smoke screen to create a cover for making this point.
India-wide NRC is the ONLY way to identify all "illegals" else they will keep shifting places and the issue can never be resolved
The protests by students may quieten soon. But they will possibly recur with greater ferocity in the near future. Assam and many parts of the Northeast are seething. The uncertainty of the NRC process destroyed people emotionally — some committed suicide, unable to bear the anxiety. They are now burdened with the appeal process, having been excluded from the Register. Once the CAA comes in, there is fear of being swamped by non-Muslim refugees — that will challenge the ancient Assamese culture and burden Assam’s scarce resources. There are similar concerns in other parts of the Northeast.
The lie propagated by Indian express ... The cutoff date is 31-Dec-2014 i.e. illegals are already inside India, Assam and NE states. The inaction of the past 50+ years have resulted in what Assam and NE are seeing.
NRC with the Inner line permit + other recent steps will ensure that Assam and other NE states will not have to worry about future "illegals". The past inaction lead to the current status.
In all probability, thousands will boycott the NRC process. States will decline the Centre’s diktat, challenging the very core of our federal structure. Where will the detention camps be built? What will be the cost? How much of administrative manpower will be used?
The beauty of NRC is that it will not be easy to bypass it ..
1. Link it from the Cradle to Grave and everything in the middle. Every step of you public access will need to be validated against the NRC db thus making it impossible to by-pass it for any length of time.
A poor will be forced to NRC by PDS and other GOI subsidy scheme. A rich will be forced into the NRC when it will be required for his next air-ticket and I am just giving 2 extreme examples. Boycott my a$$.
2. There will be no "detention camp" just denial of basic service with an ID. Let people keep themselves locked inside their houses.
What will be the cost of that to the GOI and the taxpayer? NONE except to get the NRC infrastructure in place!
How will it be administered? By forcing NRC validation for everything right from cradle to the grave or crematorium. No additional manpower needed because people who want to get anything or anywhere will self-administer.
PLUS, there will be no "PR" issue either in India or Abroad. GOI, of course, will always be willing to "help" anyone found missing from the NRC DB by providing door "service" for verification and "ensuring" that they get their "legitimate" access & share of government's schemes, all in the name of transparency and fight against corruption.
How cynical ...
Note: I don't know what the GOI plans but this is what I think will be the best path. Least controversial plus cost-effective plus simple to administer and one without little scope of "PR disaster".
I also think that GOI should NOT announce the service linking just yet. Focus on getting CAA/NRC done without attaching any other objectives. This is certainly going back to the SC and no need for giving more material to the opposition at this stage.
GOI can simply insist that it objective is just to get the Citizenship register done. Multiple chance for appeal followed by full access to the courts. No detention in interim and citizenship or deportation after the process. Keep it clean and simple.
AFTER it has passed the SC hurdle, and NCR will be challenged on its own separate from CAA, slowly start rolling out linkages. Just to piss off the so called liberals, my first choice of linkage will be air-tickets. Let the liberals say that they will stay at home or take a cab to their next lit-fest or vacation. It is tactical too because it will be challenged. Better to get it SC approved for something as inconsequential as air-tickets than the PDS and then roll it our for the rest starting with the Mobile/Internet connection, followed by banks and PDS and the rest.
Let me see how many people decide they want to boycott a scheme that will disrupt their life at every step every day.
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