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VIEW & COUNTERVIEW
Citizenship: Government
has its head over heels!
VIEWPOINT he new Citizenship Amend- the mass protests in the country that
Modi and Shah are so nervous with
ment Act has left our lead-
ers hanging in the balance. both have said that they are not com-
DR VED PRATAP The question of whether ing with the Citizenship Register even
VAIDIK or not to grant citizenship though the BJP’s 2019 manifesto has
T to Muslim refugees from made a clear promise to make the said
neighboring Muslim countries has Register. Amit Shah said in the Rajya
He is a celebrated jour- forced the Prime Minister and the Home Sabha on 20 November 2019 that the
nalist, political analyst, Minister to say that the Government of government is determined to create a
columnist & author. India will no longer create a ‘National National Citizens Register.
Views expressed are Citizen Register’ (NRC). In my opinion, it is in the national
his own By saying this, Narendra Modi and interest. It is a national duty. It must be
Amit Shah have got both the Govern- done. Surprising is why Modi and Shah
ment of India and the Bhartiya Janta have turned completely head over heels
Party head over heels. He has said that and taken a complete turn? Is it because
the government is making only ‘Na- they made a mistake in making refugee-
tional Population Register’, which was law? Muslims have not been added to
there during the BJP government led the list of refugees. Now the country will
by former Prime Minister, Atal Behari have to suffer a big punishment for this
Vajpayee and the Congress government small mistake of Modi and Shah. Now
led by Dr. Manmohan Singh. India, which is already facing popula-
The difference between the Popula- tion explosion, will become the largest
tion Register and the Citizen Register is orphanage in South Asia.
that in the first one who has lived in India It will not only be confined to refugees
for six months, he can write his name but from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bang-
in the second, detailed information will ladesh, but now India would become a
be asked about each person and if any base for refugees, infiltrators, touts and
deficiency is found in his investigation, spies from all the neighboring countries.
Modi and Shah are then he will not be granted citizenship.
He will be called an intruder.
so nervous with LETTERS@TEHELKA.COM
the mass protests
in the country that
both have said that
they are not coming
with the Citizenship
Register even
though the BJP’s
2019 manifesto
has made a clear
promise to make
the said Register
