THE CAA
On the 11th of December 2019, the amendments of the Citizenship Act passed by the Parliament in 2019 came into force. This piece of legislation is probably the one facing the most opposition since I started actively following politics in 2014. The objective of the bill is simple – to not consider people from specific countries and specific communities as illegal migrants, to drop all pending cases against them and clear their path for citizenship through naturalisation. This article is neither to support the act nor to blame it in the voice of the protesters you see on the streets in the JNU campus. I have rather tried to analyse the possible implications of its implementation. The major opposition to the act comes on account of keeping Muslims away from its provisions. Some extreme thinkers have gone as far as to think it of the government trying to create a Hindu Rashtra. All these thoughts are too far-fetched and exaggerated. The Supreme Court, in the SR Bommai vs Union of India c...