[The fangs are now out in the open. Just not of Shah and those down the line. Goes well beyond a dog whistle.
In any case: I. The CAA as a stand-alone measure has little significance (except in the North-east), other than symbolic . II. *It, however, singles out Muslims for exclusion*. The persecuted from the non-Muslim-majority neighbouring countries - Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tibet/China, Bhutan etc., don't qualify. Nor the persecuted Muslims - Ahmadiyas, Shias, Hazaras, Balochs etc., from the Muslim-majority neighbouring countries. III. But, *bundled with the NRC*, it is designed to send out the (deceptive and) pernicious message that huge number of Hindus who'd be filtered out by the NRC process, for want of "documents", don't have to worry - the CAA would take care of them. *Only the Muslims would be stripped of their citizenship and turned stateless*. IV. It's quite another matter that *even the filtered out Hindus, and other non-Muslims, in order to be counted as Indian citizens will have to establish the claim of migration from either Afghanistan or Bangladesh or Pakistan, to India, on or before Dec. 31 2014*. (Ref.: < https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/migrants-wont-get-citizenship-automatically/articleshow/72799784.cms?fbclid=IwAR2FnjCF5ipBALwMn9TG3UZuoqwlrsY2ytUh4n8gO4tJMhpaI1UV3okuZ44 >.) Hence ... Also look up: AA. < https://scontent.fbom19-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s960x960/79524747_10221387535263000_8116250684807970816_o.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_ohc=WFaHY50gw64AQnjX5vqFXY8oDpityUtGipm9inmhPJdCTIdP_0J6XDRFg&_nc_ht=scontent.fbom19-1.fna&oh=d09fadf80fa362e619c79393bf3a948e&oe=5E7FE01E >. BB. <https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=448885106030986>. CC. < https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2342342532723103&id=1473551029602262&sfnsn=wiwspwa&d=w&vh=e&funlid=o0fbVB4ePscEvg9F >. <<Addressing his last rally in the (Jharkhand) state, Modi said, “Main aaj Congress aur unke jitne chele chapaate hain, jitne unke saathi dal hain, unko aaj khule aam chunauti deta hoon, agar unmay himmat hai, khul kar ke ghoshna karein ki woh Pakistan kay har naagrik ko Bharat ki naagrikta dene ke liye taiyyar hain. Keh dein zara, *desh unka hisaab chukta kar dega* [emphasis added].”>> (Excerpted from sl. no. I. below.) A call to civil war!? <<“I refuse to be the Hindu you want to shape me into. I refuse to be the Hindu vote which will sustain the insane authority of your power. I refuse to be the saffron of your Hindu flag that you bear like a sword ready to kill. I refuse to be the Hindu for whom Rama can only be worshipped in the temple you will build after reducing a mosque to rubble. I refuse the citizenship of your Hindu Nation in which Muslims will not be my equals as fellow citizens. I refuse to be a Hindu who does not recognise that dead soldiers are the price we pay For dividing ourselves as Hindus from those who are our own. I refuse to be a Hindu who is made to recognise herself in the images of inhuman monsters you hold before me and which you claim are my reflections in a mirror. I refuse to allow you to crush the many-splendoured, many hued, glorious, joyous, infinitely spiritual, creatively mutating and deeply compassionate possibilities of being a Hindu, into the slogan of hate into the rhetoric of fear into the prison of bigotry into the law of the tyrant into a fragmented nation. I refuse to be the Hindu you want me to be And I will defy every effort of yours to dehumanise me And shape me into that monstrous creature you call by the name Hindu.”>> (A poem by Parinitha Shetty, cited in sl. no. II. below.) <<Baghel said that Assam is “burning”, and its effects are being felt in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh as well. “And [Union Home Minister] Amit Shah says this is the beginning and they will implement NRC,” Baghel said. “If someone doesn’t have land, or someone is old, or isn’t literate, how will they prove they are Indian? And if they can’t prove, where will they send them?” The Chhattisgarh chief minister said that Mahatma Gandhi had refused to sign the register during British rule in order to defy the colonialists. He was referring to Gandhi’s refusal to sign a register prepared by the Transvaal government in South Africa in 1906, which sought registration of the colony’s Indian and Chinese populations.>> (Excerpted from sl. no. III. below.) The Bharat Jalao Party, taking advantage of its brute majority in the Indian parliament and virtually hollowing out all the watchdog institutions of democracy, has dragged "India" to the very brink of extinction, to make way for a "Hindu Rashtra" - denuded of all vestiges of substantive democracy and pluralism. As it appears, it's the last chance for "India" to survive. It's time to resist! United we stand! Divided we perish!] I/III. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/jharkhand-election-campaign-why-dont-cong-its-cronies-announce-indian-citizenship-for-pakistanis-pm-narendra-modi-6172585/ Why don’t Congress, its cronies announce Indian citizenship for all Pakistanis: PM Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi assured that not a single Indian, be it Muslim or Hindu, Parsi or Christian, would be affected by the new citizenship law. Written by Abhishek Angad | Sahibganj (jharkhand) | Updated: December 18, 2019 6:54:15 am On Tuesday, Modi also challenged the Congress and its allies to announce, if they had the courage, to bring back Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir and the criminalisation of instant triple talaq. (File) Winding up BJP’s campaign for Assembly polls in Jharkhand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday accused the Congress and its allies again of spreading lies over the new citizenship law, and dared them to publicly declare they would give Indian citizenship to all Pakistanis. Addressing his last rally in the state, Modi said, “Main aaj Congress aur unke jitne chele chapaate hain, jitne unke saathi dal hain, unko aaj khule aam chunauti deta hoon, agar unmay himmat hai, khul kar ke ghoshna karein ki woh Pakistan kay har naagrik ko Bharat ki naagrikta dene ke liye taiyyar hain. Keh dein zara, desh unka hisaab chukta kar dega.” (Friends, I dare the Congress and its allies to accord Indian citizenship to all Pakistani citizens. Let them announce it publicly… The country will settle its score with them.) Read | Opposition at President’s door: Protests echo spreading fear, ask Government to repeal Act The campaign for the fifth and final phase of Assembly elections in Jharkhand, currently ruled by a BJP-led alliance, ends Wednesday, with voting for the 16 seats in this phase on December 20. The results for all 81 seats are scheduled to be declared on December 23. Two days ago in Dumka too, Modi had accused the Congress and its allies for raising a storm and fuelling unrest over the new citizenship law. He had said those “spreading the fire” could be “identified by their clothes”. “Jo aag laga rahe hain, TV pe unke jo drishya aa rahe hain, yeh aag lagaane vaale kaun hain, woh unke kapdon se hi pata chal jaata hai,” he said. (The Congress and its allies are making a noise, creating a storm. And if that doesn’t work, they are spreading a fire. From the visuals on TV, those setting the fire can be identified by their clothes.) Also Read | US to India on CAA: Respect right of peaceful assembly On Tuesday, Modi also challenged the Congress and its allies to announce, if they had the courage, to bring back Article 370 in Jammu & Kashmir and the criminalisation of instant triple talaq. “Congress is chunauti ko sweekar karein, khul kar kay ailaan karein warna desh se jooth bolna, desh mein bhram failana, doosron ko apni dhaal bana kar yeh gorilla rajneeti band kare,” he said. (Let Congress accept this challenge and announce it publicly. Else, they should avoid misleading people and spreading lies, and stop its guerilla politics by firing from others’ shoulders.) Also Read | Seelampur violence: 20 surrounded us, pelted stones, says injured constable The Prime Minister assured that not a single Indian, be it Muslim or Hindu, Parsi or Christian, would be affected by the new citizenship law. “It does not take away the right of any Indian, or hurt anyone. Still, Congress and its allies, are fuelling fears among Muslims,” he said. A day earlier, he tweeted, “I want to unequivocally assure my fellow Indians that CAA does not affect any citizen of India of any religion. No Indian has anything to worry… This Act is only for those who have faced years of persecution outside and have no place to go except India.” Modi also appealed to protesting college and university students to bring forth issues for discussion with the government in a “democratic manner”. “Lekin aapko yeh samajhna hoga ki kahin kuch dal, kathit urban naxals, kayi apne aap ko buddhi jiwi kahne wale log, aapke kandhe par bandook chala kar aapna raajnitik ullu to seedha nahi kare rahe hain? Aapki barbaadi karne kay peeche kahin inka shadyantra toh nahi hai. Yaad rakhiyega, aur yeh desh 20 saal se dekh raha hai, unhe sirf aur sirf Modi se nafrat hai.” Also Read | Justice Gautam Patel: ‘A govt committed to democracy has nothing to fear from dissent’ (But you need to understand whether some groups, so-called urban Naxals, people who claim to be intellectuals, are using you for their own politics, whether they are conspiring as they play with your lives. Do remember, for the last 20 years, they have just been hating Modi.) II. https://www.dawn.com/news/1522697?fbclid=IwAR1vJvAjTeC4Id0S2Mb953QyiH43yNnsQNVlsiZ0HLQRCcp4jozgmNaBvS8 Has Modi lost the plot? Jawed NaqviUpdated December 17, 2019Facebook Count 185 Twitter Share 35 AND so Prime Minister Modi and his Man Friday, the home minister, seem to have lost the plot, which they were destined to do anyway. They had embarked on a mission from Gujarat in 2002 to “unite the Hindus and divide the rest” with a communal purpose enshrined in Hindutva. With the widely disputed Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) they were hoping to get a clean shot at India’s secular constitution. The citizenship act was enacted to exclude Muslims from a law that would open the doors apparently to refugees of every religious stripe from three countries — Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The chief ministers of Hindu-majority West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal have put the spoke in Modi’s wheel. They say they won’t implement the unconstitutional law. Rather than uniting Hindus against Muslims, what the duo have succeeded in doing is to alienate their own hardcore allies, namely the right-wing Shiv Sena and those erring Hindutva fans that had elected the Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam. The Modi-Shah pair has thus sparked a fire that now threatens to singe them and engulf the country. In pictures: Protests persist against India's new citizenship bill ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD Muslims and non-Muslims have been staging unprecedented rallies in scores of cities. Two were killed in police firing in Assam and serious injuries were feared in police action against students of Delhi’s Jamia Millia University. Clearly, the BJP has bitten off more than it can chew. The Assamese and other denizens of north-eastern states may be making a regressive demand in wanting alleged Muslim migrants to be expelled. But they do not want the Hindus to stay either. This flies in the face of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s promise that no Hindu would be forced to leave the country. The battle lines are drawn. The chief ministers of Hindu-majority West Bengal, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Delhi’s Arvind Kejriwal have put the spoke in Modi’s wheel. A cursory survey shows that it is no longer a Hindu-Muslim binary for the BJP. The Shiv Sena, not a great anchor of support for Muslims, walked out of the vote on citizenship amendment, calling it communal. Interestingly, the Modi-Shah duo has done something that Nehru and Gandhi must have died craving for. They managed to successfully invoke unusual praise for Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi from Pakistan’s foreign ministry of all the places. It is another matter that the expression of affection is late by 70 years when it could have shepherded history towards a revolutionary possibility. Yet, the fact that it has come at all is significant. Modi’s opponents are challenging the essential reason for the new law, to exclude Muslims and include everyone else from the three Muslim-majority countries in South Asia. The north-eastern states see this as a betrayal, while the rest of the opposition sees it as an affront to the constitution, in particular the preamble, which promises equality to all citizens in the secular project called India. Women have been at the forefront of the protests in Assam and elsewhere. Savour the poem by Parinitha Shetty, a much-loved woman writer-activist. The poem I refuse to be has been rather well-received (and trolled) on the social media. The gripping lines sum up the fight majority of Hindu men and women are fighting hand in hand with Muslims against Modi’s and Shah’s majoritarian worldview. Writes Shetty: “I refuse to be the Hindu you want to shape me into. I refuse to be the Hindu vote which will sustain the insane authority of your power. I refuse to be the saffron of your Hindu flag that you bear like a sword ready to kill. I refuse to be the Hindu for whom Rama can only be worshipped in the temple you will build after reducing a mosque to rubble. I refuse the citizenship of your Hindu Nation in which Muslims will not be my equals as fellow citizens. I refuse to be a Hindu who does not recognise that dead soldiers are the price we pay For dividing ourselves as Hindus from those who are our own. I refuse to be a Hindu who is made to recognise herself in the images of inhuman monsters you hold before me and which you claim are my reflections in a mirror. I refuse to allow you to crush the many-splendoured, many hued, glorious, joyous, infinitely spiritual, creatively mutating and deeply compassionate possibilities of being a Hindu, into the slogan of hate into the rhetoric of fear into the prison of bigotry into the law of the tyrant into a fragmented nation. I refuse to be the Hindu you want me to be And I will defy every effort of yours to dehumanise me And shape me into that monstrous creature you call by the name Hindu.” The current phase of the Modi-Shah plot was recently tested in Jammu and Kashmir. Badgered Kashmiris more so today than ever before want not to be part of India, but they are stopped from acting on this quest with brute military force. Indian Muslims, on the other hand, have always taken a more involved view. They toiled to make the country work in a spirit of secular democracy as promised by the largest democracy’s founding fathers. Muslims had everything to gain from the secular statute as the guarantor of a multicultural polity, and much to lose from its disuse. They know now that they are no longer alone in the tryst. The writer is Dawn’s correspondent in Delhi. [email protected] III. https://scroll.in/latest/947182/why-should-i-prove-im-indian-chhattisgarh-cm-bhupesh-baghel-says-he-will-not-sign-nrc?fbclid=IwAR24yoy01VyO_mo7ep3h8UlGGMLhEKldORIWcT49V7MnkXsoqJnjVZADX-Y ‘Why should I prove I’m Indian?’ Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel says he will not sign NRC Baghel said Mahatma Gandhi had also refused to sign a register of Indian citizens in South Africa, and called the BJP ‘dark-skinned Britishers’. ‘Why should I prove I’m Indian?’ Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel says he will not sign NRC A file photo of Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel. | Congress/Twitter Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said on Tuesday that he will be the “first person” to not sign the National Register of Citizens if the Centre implements it in the state, The Indian Express reported on Wednesday. “We have a big challenge in front of us with the Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre,” Baghel told party workers at the headquarters in Raipur. “Their policies are only to mislead people, to instigate people, to set fire, to cut and divide.” The Congress leader was speaking on the occasion of the completion of one year of his government. “Today the country is burning. In different states there are fires burning, there is violence,” Baghel said. “There is misbehaviour with students, there is assault on them. There is murder, arson. They are creating an environment of fear in the country. Their only objective is to stay in power.” Baghel was referring to alleged police action on students in different universities protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act, over the last few days. Last week, Parliament passed the contentious Act, that provides citizenship to refugees from six religious communities, except Muslims, escaping persecution in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan. The chief minister said that people had died due to demonetisation, while the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax had caused businesses to shut shop. Baghel said that while the BJP returned to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections due to the Balakot air strikes, the party has not yet told people how RDX was found at the spot of the Pulwama attack on February 14, in which 40 Central Reserve Police Force personnel were killed. Baghel said that Assam is “burning”, and its effects are being felt in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh as well. “And [Union Home Minister] Amit Shah says this is the beginning and they will implement NRC,” Baghel said. “If someone doesn’t have land, or someone is old, or isn’t literate, how will they prove they are Indian? And if they can’t prove, where will they send them?” The Chhattisgarh chief minister said that Mahatma Gandhi had refused to sign the register during British rule in order to defy the colonialists. He was referring to Gandhi’s refusal to sign a register prepared by the Transvaal government in South Africa in 1906, which sought registration of the colony’s Indian and Chinese populations. “I want to say from this stage that if they implement NRC, I will be the first person not to sign the register,” Baghel said. “Why should I prove I am Indian? This is Gandhiji’s way that he started in South Africa. The Britishers had then started it [the register]. Now the dark-skinned Britishers [BJP] are starting it.” The National Register of Citizens, which intended to weed out undocumented migrants from genuine Indian citizens living in Assam, was published on August 31. It excluded 19 lakh people, which comprises 6% of Assam’s population. -- Peace Is Doable -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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