A problem of solutions? - T Homes, T&T Group Project
What exactly is the problem that the Citizenship Amendment Act is solving? The number of people that are currently seeking citizenship on grounds of religious persecution is extremely modest, not more than a few thousand. And the number protesting it is many times larger. Instead of debating the merits or otherwise of the legislation, what is really worth asking is why would the government go ahead with legislation that causes such strife if the benefits don’t justify it? Perhaps because the point of the CAA is not the CAA. What the real purpose of this solution-in-search of-a-problem appears to be is to fix the problems created by this government’s earlier solution- the NRC. Imagined as a grand plan to rid the North East of a large number of Bangladeshi Muslim refugees who had allegedly infiltrated the country, the NRC turned out to be more problem than solution. Reportedly, out of the 1.9 million people identified as illegal, a majority are Hindus. Not surprisingly, thi...