Tag: Anti-CAA
One year of anti-CAA 2019 protests: Time for critical retrospection
Reading Time: 9 minutes It’s one year of the anti-CAA 2019 protests. It’s now time to retrospect the movement to build a stronger citizenship movement against NRC.
Rules of the CAA 2019: An albatross around the BJP’s neck
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why the BJP is repeatedly failing to publish the Rules of the CAA 2019? The reason is it’s not willing to let the people know its conspiracy.
What forced the BJP to drop CAA 2019 campaign during Durga Puja in Bengal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes After much hullabaloo over the issue, what made the West Bengal BJP to drop CAA 2019 campaign during the Durga Puja to woo Hindu voters?
How some anti-NRC organisations are fooling Bengali refugees with CAA 2019?
Reading Time: 6 minutes Did the CAA 2019 provide any relief to Bengali non-Muslim refugees? How some of the anti-NRC organisations are misrepresenting the law?
No, CAA 2019 won’t disenfranchise anyone, CAA 2003 will
Reading Time: 9 minutes 77% respondents of a survey think CAA 2019 will disenfranchise them, but they, ironically, don’t know about CAA 2003, the actual culprit.
Why a “humane CAA” is demanded to fight the NRC menace?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Why the demand for a “humane CAA” is raised by some of the organisers of West Bengal’s anti-NRC movement as an effective weapon against NRC?
Why the anti-NRC movement of West Bengal split over the CAA?
Reading Time: 10 minutes Why the anti-NRC movement of West Bengal split on the issue of opposing the CAA? Is CAA 2019 a major threat to the people or the CAA 2003?
Why Shaheen Bagh activist Shehzad Ali joining the BJP is a hoax?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The news that Shaheen Bagh activist Shehzad Ali has joined the BJP is a hoax as the man was no way connected with the agitation against NRC.
Finalising the rules of the CAA 2019: Why the MHA missed the deadline?
Reading Time: 6 minutes The home ministry didn’t finalise the rules of the CAA 2019 before June 18th 2020, which was the deadline. Is this delay in filing BJP’s deliberate act?
NPR and NRC in post-lockdown phase is a dire necessity for the Modi regime
Reading Time: 5 minutes The rollout of the NPR and NRC in post-lockdown phase is inevitable as the Modi regime will try to provide cheap labour pool to big corporate houses now.
Indifference, when a pregnant woman is jailed under false charges, is a crime, dissent isn’t
Reading Time: 4 minutes If there is an ominous silence over the arrest of a pregnant woman like Safoora Zargar under false charges, then that’s a crime. Dissenting isn’t.
Caging Pinjra Tod activists exemplify Modi regime’s fear
Reading Time: 3 minutes The state repression exhibited by the arrest of two Pinjra Tod activists, Devangana Kalita and Natasha Narwal, exemplifies the Modi regime’s fear.
How to strengthen the anti-CAA movements in the post-COVID-19 world?
Reading Time: 4 minutes To make the anti-CAA agitations sustainable, an organisational architecture should be constructed to give an intellectual articulatory edge to the protests.
Why the NPR is inevitable despite a pause due to COVID-19 outbreak?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Though the MHA has postponed the NPR exercise due to COVID-19 outbreak, there is no reason to think it won’t happen, rather it’s needed more than ever now.
The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and Kejriwal’s war against Shaheen Bagh
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, invoked by Kejriwal to overthrow the Shaheen Bagh movement was used by the British colonial rulers to aid Hindu nationalism
Union home ministry’s NRC refusal doesn’t bring the curtain down on the episode
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Union home ministry’s NRC refusal through a reply to the Parliament doesn’t imply that the threat is over. The Modi regime didn’t retreat, it’s waiting.
Which BJP leaders will go to detention centres due to an honest NRC?
Reading Time: 6 minutes If there is an honest and impartial implementation of the NRC, which BJP leaders will end up in the detention centres? Well, there are a few of them.
Does the CAA legalise exclusion?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Is the CAA an exclusionary law? What will be the implications of this law in Assam and the northeastern states where the Bengali Hindus face discrimination.