President Ram Nath Kovind assures passage of CAB in Parliament!

Guwahati, January 31, 2019:

In a shocking development at the Rajya Sabha today, President Ram Nath Kovind has assured the passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill 2016 in the Indian Parliament.

In his speech given at the Rajya Sabha today, the President has raised the issue of the Bill again, stating that it will seek to address “injustice and deprivation” in society.

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“Mindful of the injustice and deprivation in society, my government has been working towards reforming the legal system so as to ensure social and economic justice. The Citizenship Amendment Bill will help in securing of Indian citizenship by those victims who were persecuted and were compelled to seek refuge in India. These people cannot be blamed since they were victims of circumstances”, he said.

Despite the BJP’s insistence that the Bill will help “persecuted minorities” from neighboring Islamic countries, citizens of India, and especially Northeast are wary of the consequences that the Bill might have on the demographic composition in the region, where illegal Bangladeshi immigration is already a huge concern.

It may be mentioned that the indigenous people of Tripura have been reduced to a small minority now as Bangla people make up a majority of the population. Leaders such as Assam’s Akhil Gogoi have warned that a similar fate awaits the rest of the region if the Bill is passed. Student organization (AASU) leader Samujjal Bhattacharya has also slammed the Bill for its communal nature (as it deprives only Muslim migrants of citizenship status) and called it “unconstitutional.

It is to be mentioned that the Bill has been pending passage in the Upper House after it was passed at the Lok Sabha on January 8, with the opposition’s raising of hue-and-cry over it leading to slowing down of the momentum of the Bill.

It is widely believed that the BJP will try to pass the Bill in the current budget session which is expected to last up until February 13.