Its high time we contemplate our thoughts on this contentious Act. The values of the people are taken more into consideration in a democratic institutions. However today democracy of the people and for the people seems to be in peril.Good governance the government speaks boastfully often seems to be in lost and in vain. The Citizenship Amendment Act grants recognition to all the six minorities (Hindus Sikhs Buddhists Jains Parsis and Christians) living outside India as citizens of India if they have been residing in India on or before 31st December 2014. The reason behind the granting of this citizenship to this minorities the Government of India claims blatantly is due to religious persecution of this minorities living outside India’ in parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. However the question arises as to why the Government of India has to further implement this rules when the election is just at our doorsteps? Is the present government trying to play another dirty foul politics in order to regain the votes of the hindus majority in India taken into account the religious sentiments?
From the Government of India with love ,the Ministry of Home Affairs gifted a bag filled with exemption to some few States including Nagaland ensuring that CAA of 2019 will not be implemented in all this states. Just as a child who rejoice on seeing the gift brought by the father, the peope of Nagaland seems to be rejoicing on visualizing the gift of exemption not realising this gift can subterfuge and prove to be a determintel factor in the long run. Though it might not have any immediate impact on our state.There are consequences where we need to ponder. Granting a citizenship to this six minorities from outside India especially hindus will have an inadvertent impact on our land. You give them a citizenship and they become immune since they will be shielded and protected by the constitution of India giving them their inalienable constitutional rights thereby liberty of movement and residing in any part of the country and that can create a big impediments on our state as well specially when we have so many illegal immigrants (Hindus) in the masquerade form claiming to be Indian but realistically from the alien world residing and trading in different parts of Nagaland. Why we should take this seriously is because they have already taking away so many of our jobs and other opportunities and economic benefits that belongs to the people of Nagaland and therefore the more influx of these people will also create population explosion in our state leading to scarcity of resources impacting our economy and social life in galore.Through years they have been maintaining seperate identity and there are chances where they might have establish their linguistic and cultural supremacy in places they reside today and that could pose a big threat on our future our people and the culture that we have been practising since time immemorial.Today you welcome them to our land, tomorrow you hire them for your work, the next day you give them shelter for their sustenance,the following day they will start business,the next following day they will earn and ultimately they will start draining our wealth to each different states.When we already have so many illegal immigrants in our state pilferaging and draining our resources to other states. Keeping our hope alive thinking that CAA is just a myth and can never bring a curse upon us could be the biggest mistake of our life.
Tokato K Sumi
Assistant Professor
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