India announces steps to implement a citizenship law that excludes Muslims
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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/11/1237716939/india-modi-muslims-citizenship-law
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Othering 172M residents in a country prone to fractious internal conflicts and with large nuclear armed majority Muslim neighbors next door?
What could possibly go wrong?
What do you mean by 172 million residents? Are there really that many Muslim refugees from their neighboring countries that won't get citizenship now? Or are you just referring to Indian Muslims generally?
Ah right, well theres probably over 200 million of them by 2024, which is why I was confused.
Also to be clear, those 200 million shouldn't be considered "Residents" they are every bit Indian citizens as any other Indian, and should be referred to as such, which is something the current government is trying to alter the perspective on.
A law that applies to all ethnicities except non-Muslims is for no other purpose than to further the agenda of the fascist goverment's plan of a "Hindu state", as such, the idea of such an ethnostate is extremely reactionary. Although the states where CPI (Marxist) has control won't implement this, so that is an extremely rare W by them. Modi's continous rule over the nation as well as the military occupation of Kashmir is bound to be the destruction of the Hinduvta project
This is the best summary I could come up with:
NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government on Monday announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office.
The Citizenship Amendment Act provides a fast track to naturalization for Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who fled to Hindu-majority India from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before Dec. 31, 2014.
The law was approved by Indian Parliament in 2019, but Modi's government had held off with its implementation after deadly protests broke out in capital New Delhi and elsewhere.
The register has only been implemented in the northeastern state of Assam, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has promised to roll out a similar citizenship verification program nationwide.
"These rules will now enable minorities persecuted on religious grounds in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to acquire citizenship in our nation," Home Minister Amit Shah wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Critics say Modi's conspicuous silence over anti-Muslim violence has emboldened some of his most extreme supporters and enabled more hate speech against Muslims.
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