New Delhi, March 28: The Socialist Party (India) said that when the CAA bill was proposed, it took a stand against it – as did millions of Indians who protested on the streets for months in 2019 and early 2020 on the basis that such a law was unconstitutional.
“Today, after carefully scrutinizing the rules, the SPI remains convinced that the CAA remains a pernicious piece of legislation and we continue to strongly oppose it,” the party said in a statement.
“The two most compelling reasons for our discomfort remain the inevitable instability to the North East regions and to the disturbing differential impact it will have on all but especially Muslim citizens. Indian legislative history is replete with laws that passed with strident but minimal opposition, only to be unleashed viciously by the ruling governments of the future – against its own citizens – in ways whose lines of sight ought to have been clear even at the time of their passing,” the statement said.
“The CAA rules thus seek to treat Hindu and Muslim NRC negatively-impacted peoples – differentially – and in doing so dangerously skew the balance of already fragile ethnic divisions in Assam. This also sends a message to other states in the North East such as Tripura about the Central government’s clear but nefarious intentions,” the statement claims.
“Every citizen of India will be presumed to be non-citizen and impacted but Muslim citizens more so, till we all cough up “citizenship” papers to prove it. As Farah Naqvi states here eloquently “What the NRC project will do is make us all stand in queue to audition for citizenship to a despotic government.” The NRC-CAA project is an anti-people political tool in service of a divisive ideology. Muslims will bear the brunt of this, but India’s vast Hindu population will also suffer collateral damage. And all our rights as citizens will have been forever eroded,” said the statement issued by SPI spokesperson Manoj Sarang.
SPI has asked all Indians to come together – especially social media persons – and protest the CAA Amendment rules.
