CAA poses direct challenge to India’s polity: N. Ram
The Hindu
Delivering the Benjamin Bailey Chair lecture on “The future of citizenship in India”, Mr. Ram said denying and subverting the equal rights of citizens based on their religious identities goes right into the heart of chauvnism as it would leave millions of people vulnerable.
The Citizenship Amendment Act posed a direct challenge to India's democratic and secular polity as well as to its political stability, said N. Ram, eminent journalist and Director, THG Publishing Pvt. Limited.
Delivering on “The future of citizenship in India”, Mr. Ram said denying and subverting the equal rights of citizens based on their religious identities goes right into the heart of chauvnism as it would leave millions of people vulnerable. The brutal suppression of the democratic protest that cropped up against the citizenship regime change only underscored the anti-constitutional and authoritarian nature of the project.
“The massive NRC exercise taken up in Asaam, which proved to be a nightmare, should serve a warning to India’‘, noted Mr. Ram.