Muslims who have infiltrated from Pakistan and Afghanistan are not eligible for citizenship. Union Minister Amit Shah reiterated the policy repeatedly. India’s survival and internal peace will be preserved no matter what the opposition. Christians, Hindus and Parsis are eligible for citizenship. Parsis and Christians are eligible for CAA but Muslims are not. The CAA aims to grant citizenship to persecuted minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh who arrived in India before December 31, 2014.
Understand the purpose of the law. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, religious minorities are being exterminated in the name of religion. Hindus, Christians and Parsis who came from Pakistan who fled for their lives and sought refuge in India cannot be sent back. If they go back like that, they won’t be alive. This should be understood. This is the great mind and humanity of India. But the Muslims who came here from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh are not like that.
They are not threatened there. They should go back to their country from India. Indian citizenship will not be given to them. Each country in the world has a law that decides who should or should not be granted citizenship. India is doing the same. Pakistani Muslims have no right to equality like us Indians. Amit Shah also stated that it is foolish to hold a protest in India to give citizenship to Pakistani Muslims.
Amit Shah asks why the law allows even Parsis and Christians who were not born in India to seek citizenship. I believe it is our moral and constitutional responsibility to provide shelter to those who were part of Akhand Bharat and suffered religious persecution. Akhand Bharat was the idea of a unified Greater India spanning modern Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet.
The home minister said Hindus constituted 23 percent of Pakistan’s population at the time of partition. “Now it has come down to 3.7 percent. Where did they go? Not so many people came here. Forced conversions took place, they were humiliated, treated as second-class citizens, where would they go? Our parliament and government cannot sit idly by. In 1951, 22 percent of the population of Bangladesh were Hindus, he said. ”In 2011, it dropped to 10 percent. Where did they go?’
“In Afghanistan in 1992 there were about 2 lakh Sikhs and Hindus. Now there are 500 left. Don’t they have the right to live according to their (religious) beliefs? When India was one, they were ours. They are our brothers and sisters. And mothers,” he said. Asked about persecuted Shia, Baloch and Ahmadiyya Muslims, he said, “All over the world, this community is considered a Muslim bloc. Also, even Muslims can apply for citizenship here.
There is a provision in the constitution. They can apply. He said the Indian government will take a decision keeping in mind national security and other factors, adding that the CAA is a special law for persecuted minorities from the three countries who crossed the border without any valid documents.
Amit Shah took another point and said. Any Muslim in the world can legally apply for citizenship in India. The law allows them to do that. A Pakistani Muslim can apply for citizenship after 5 years of lawful arrival in India on a job visa. But the Muslims who infiltrated from Pakistan do not have this right. Look, we are now talking about giving citizenship to people who have crossed the border illegally and refugees.
India considers Christians, Hindus and Parsis who came as refugees to save their lives. But Amit Shah also stated that if Muslims infiltrate into India from their Muslim countries and ask for citizenship, the answer will be no.
