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> The government is planning a country wide citizenship register, on the same lines of Reich Citizenship Law, detention(concentration?) camps are already being

> The government is planning a country wide citizenship register, on the same lines of Reich Citizenship Law, detention(concentration?) camps are already being built. That's flase. This Government didn't "plan" NRC. It was actually supposed to happen as per the Assam Accord which was signed by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985. Successive Congress Governments didn't act on it due to vote bank politics.[1] It was finally implemented in 2013 when the Supreme Court directed the Government to do so.[2] The current leadership came into power in 2014. 1. https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/rajiv-gandhi-didnt-pursue-assam-accord-as-it-would-have-impacted-congress-vote-bank-says-ram-pradhan-former-home-secretary/articleshow/65251638.cms https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/rajiv-g... 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizens_of_India# https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Citizen...

sifar 7y ago
You forget the part where there are now calls to implement it across other states also. This has become predictable. You use historical context to set a precedent and then extend it to everybody.
- sbmthakur 7y ago
  I see that calls are being made in West Bengal which also borders Bangladesh. Not a surprise.
kamaal 7y ago
>>That's flase. This Government didn't "plan" NRC. They are now: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-will-implement-nrc-across-the-country-amit-shah/articleshow/71185805.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio... https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/countrywide-national-register-of-citizens-will-it-work-1568887266398.html https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/countrywide-national-... This is recipe for disaster. Keep in mind, India has millions of people who lose homes, and documents during floods, or have to migrate because they are daily wage workers and can't find jobs, or have to escape pogroms, or lose documents due to other reasons. In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to.
- sbmthakur 7y ago
  > In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to. That was also true in 1985 when GoI signed the Assam Accord. Why did the GoI lie to the people of Assam if all this was a disaster in the first place? Regardless of what happened in the past, the recent stress on NRC is due to the SC order in 2013. I'm not sure how the Government should've defied the SC order. Even if they had done that, it could've had ramifications in Assam which has already seen a lot of violence against ethnic Bengalis.

sifar 7y ago

You forget the part where there are now calls to implement it across other states also. This has become predictable. You use historical context to set a precedent and then extend it to everybody.

sbmthakur 7y ago
I see that calls are being made in West Bengal which also borders Bangladesh. Not a surprise.

kamaal 7y ago

>>That's flase. This Government didn't "plan" NRC. They are now: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/government-will-implement-nrc-across-the-country-amit-shah/articleshow/71185805.cms https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio... https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/countrywide-national-register-of-citizens-will-it-work-1568887266398.html https://www.livemint.com/politics/news/countrywide-national-... This is recipe for disaster. Keep in mind, India has millions of people who lose homes, and documents during floods, or have to migrate because they are daily wage workers and can't find jobs, or have to escape pogroms, or lose documents due to other reasons. In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to.

sbmthakur 7y ago
> In fact most of the Indian public is poor and can't produce land records to prove anything, they don't own any land. They don't have passports because they haven't traveled or even had a need to. That was also true in 1985 when GoI signed the Assam Accord. Why did the GoI lie to the people of Assam if all this was a disaster in the first place? Regardless of what happened in the past, the recent stress on NRC is due to the SC order in 2013. I'm not sure how the Government should've defied the SC order. Even if they had done that, it could've had ramifications in Assam which has already seen a lot of violence against ethnic Bengalis.