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KANU SANYAL
Editor-in-Chief
VISWAM
Editorial Board
P.Jaswantha Rao
Arvind Sinha
Madhu
Shambhu Mahato
Nand Kishore Singh
Vol. 12, Issue : 1
January 2020
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On Others Pages:
1. Statement:
- CC on CA Act
- AIFTU(N) on Jan 8 Strike
2. In Memory: 4
5
- Ho Chi Minh
3. World Affairs: 6
- Bolivia
3. Labour File : 8
- Code on Industrial Relations
- Code on Wages
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- Code on Health Bill
4. Interview: 14
- On Kashmir
5. Political & Economic Notes: 15
- RCEP
- Data Bill 18
20
- Disha Case
- Maharashtra 21
22
- Demonetisation
6. Report: 23
- AP
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but also has gone against its wishes. The protest has united the people
of all faiths instead of dividing them. We see all the people calling the
CAA and NRC as the tools of dividing India and Indian people along
communal lines and discriminating against the Muslims. The students,
youth, women, dalits, tribals, other toiling people; democratic and left
forces are united in the protest movement to demand the withdrawal
of CAA and NRC. The intellectuals, scientists and artistes came out in
thousands expressing their support and solidarity to the protest
movement. Here the BJP has suffered a serious blow to its sinister
design to communally divide the Indian people and single out a section
of Indian population – Muslims for attack.
6. Here two questions need answers. A) Why the BJP regime chose
to bring the CAB and implement the NRC throughout India at this time?
B) Why these moves have triggered off such a strong and wide spread
opposition and protest in the Country?
As all the regimes of exploiting ruling classes, the BJP regime too
is playing the game of diverting the people from the real issues. The
country’s economy is now plagued by a worst crisis. Though those in
power were doing everything to deny or underplay it, the real effects
of crisis are inescapable for the people. The people were getting restive
and taking the road of struggle. The BJP regime was in dire need of
diverting the people.
The judgment on the Babri Maszid – Ramjanmaboomi dispute
roused the feelings of injustice among the Muslim community. But it
did not lead to violent protest and communal clash as the general
mass of Muslim people, acting with a sense of maturity, have refused
to fall prey to the divide and rule game of the BJP. The BJP Govt. has
brought the CAB to the fore when the people were moving into struggle
on the problems of life.
The BJP Government’s move to bring the CAA is a part of its
communal agenda too. The CAA claims to neutralize on a fast track
basis the citizenship of minorities, identified as Hindus, Sikhs, Buddists,
Jains, Christians and Parsis who migrate to India because of
persecution in Pakistan, Bangla Desh and Afghanistan. Clearly, the
Muslims are excluded from the scope of migration and citizenship. BJP
views India as a Hindu state and it opts to give shelter to Hindus in
India. This thinking is totally opposed to the concept and spirit of India.
The Indian constitution declares India as a sovereign, socialist, secular
and democratic country. It claims to accord equality and equal rights
to all with no discrimination. But these principles are violated than
practiced by all the sections of Indian ruling classes. BJP, now in power
at the centre, is doing everything to stealthy smuggle its ideas of Hindu
Rashtra into the laws and policies of Indian state. The CAA came only
in this wake.
Through CAA, the BJP Govt. is attempting to lure Hindus from
some chosen countries with the offer of Indian citizenship. This way of
inviting a section of people from other countries in the name of religious
persecution not only disturbs communal harmony in the concerned
countries, but also creates needless controversies and tensions
between India and the countries from where they are migrating to India.
It also creates a category of people (Hindus) seeking migration and
citizenship and such people getting discriminated from other Indian
citizens. These migrated people are required to convince the Indian
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