Understanding of CAA and NRC , clarifying certain myths
Citizenship is a matter of importance for every country. A citizen is a legally recognized national residing in the territory of a country under the ambit of the lawful provisions thereof. It makes easy for the person to defend his/her rights against the State. With grant of citizenship comes the influx of all the rights guaranteed under the Constitutional and legal framework of that country. It helps a person defend himself/herself against any type of authoritarianism. It becomes important for a nation to recognize its citizen as a nation without citizen ceases to be a nation. The recent amendment to The Citizenship Act has sparked some controversies. It is a mere extended amendment to the Citizenship Act, 1955. Most of them being because of the gross misinformation being spread by those political parties that wish to keep their vote bank politics intact. The violence that erupted seems to be the consequence of this misinformation campaign. The most laughable part of the w...