The Citizens Amendment Act
Sometimes there comes a watershed moment in nation’s history that not only decides its future but also corrects the mistakes of the past. The year 2019 has been one such watershed “moment”, which has seen the course of Indian history being corrected in a decisive manner. Be it the “abrogation” of Article 370, the push to build the Ram temple at Ayodhya and now the Citizenship Amendment Bill (now Act), India is witnessing history unfolding, page by page. Whatever be the “liberal” anxieties about CAB “destroying the Idea of India” i.e. the syncretic nature of India, the fact is that these anxious voices were nowhere to be heard when a Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, made the statement that minorities had the first right to resources, thus ignoring the fact that poverty cut across religious lines. No Idea of India was violated to such people when a community was allowed to maintain their separate religious law—in fact is still being allowed to do so—whi...