Aastha - Week 2


Aastha Bhardwaj
Reflection Paper 2
February 13th, 2020
The Implications of CAA and NRC

While looking at the two from afar, a general perspective of them being anti-Muslim can be formed fairly easily as the nature of the text itself, permits them to discriminate on the basis of one’s religion. However, when the two are clubbed and looked at from the ‘pov’[1] of the Indian Societal structures it can be understood that they are against minorities in their essence.
The reason behind that inference is that while CAA seems to be targeted at Muslim minorities in India and those from other countries what it coupled with NRC targets is all those who will not be able to prove their lineage, because for reasons of absurdities no proof of current citizenship will apparently be accepted by the government and one needs to be or one’s predecessors should have been ‘property owners’ for them to prove their belonging to the State. 
In a country which inhabits around 33 slums pan nation, which house people who own no land whatsoever and live on a day to day wage, it is clear that they are the specific targets. The people inhabiting the slum areas as well as those who live on roads are rarely, if ever, members who hail from the “upper” caste communities, owing to the systematic oppression which has left the ‘lower’ caste communities land-less and this attempt at the restoration of the Brahmical order may leave them state-less as well.

[1] Point-of-View

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