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Citizenship play: Search for the enemy within

With the CAA and the NRC package, Indian Muslims will be burdened with proving their identity and solidarity with the nation on the one hand and become potential targets of exclusion, on the other

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Bharat Bhushan
BJP President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said that even if the entire Opposition were to unite against it, the government “won’t budge an inch” on implementing the CAA. Party leaders and ministers of government have declared their commitment to continue with the process of preparing a National Register of Citizens (NRC) and reiterate that eventually the NRC will be implemented nation-wide.

What explains such determination to implement the CAA and the NRC?

Today, nearly 72 years after Independence, barring some minor insurgencies, India faces little internal challenge to its sovereignty and stability. By its own admission India
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