CAA, NPR and NRC
It is quite sometime that we have been a witness to public protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), National Population Register and National Register of Citizens. The creation of NRC is mandated under the Citizenship Act 1955, later amended in 2003. Citizenship (Amendment) Act enacted in 2019 provided citizenship to the displaced Hindu from the muslim dominated countries neighbouring India, like Afganistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The main argument is that these displaced Hindu people are persecuted in the muslim dominated countries for being Hindus, and have nowhere to go except India. In India, many have come over a period of time and are living in poor conditions, with little institutional suport. These refugees do not own any fixed assets. Furthermore, despite living in the dilapidated camps for more than three decades, they did not get Indian citizenship until now. Everybody feels sympathy for these people including muslims like Asasuddin Owaisi, leader of AIMI