Tag: NPR
Why Modi’s proposed electoral reforms are a threat to the poor’s right to vote?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The proposed electoral reforms of the Modi government are merely a smokescreen before starting the NPR-based NRC to disenfranchise the poor.
Does the anti-CAA 2019 movement have a potential to defeat Modi like the farmers?
Reading Time: 16 minutes Why the anti-CAA 2019 movement failed to gain anything unlike the farmers’ movement? What went wrong with the anti-CAA-NRC protests?
What’s inside BJP’s Uttarakhand Muslim population growth and ‘land jihad’ bogey?
Reading Time: 6 minutes What’s the truth between the BJP government’s allegation of Muslim population growth and ‘land jihad’ in Uttarakhand? What’s the BJP’s agenda behind this bogey?
Why the TMC’s victory won’t stop NRC in West Bengal?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The TMC’s victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections is seen as a mandate against the NRC. But can the TMC prevent an NRC in West Bengal? Can it stop NRC?
Why Amit Shah’s assurance on NRC to Gorkhas is based on sheer lies?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Despite Amit Shah’s assurance on NRC to Gorkhas, there will be no respite for the community once the exercise starts following the preparation of the NPR data.
Citizenship issue: After Shah, Mamata’s hollow claims confuse people
Reading Time: 3 minutes After Amit Shah, now Mamata Bandopadhyay’s hollow rhetoric on the citizenship issue during her Bolpur rally is going to confuse the people.
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.
DAMAL’s December 9th rally introduced a new equation in citizenship movement
Reading Time: 5 minutes DAMAL’s December 9th rally at Kolkata helped to unite the Dalits, tribals and Muslims together against the menace of NRC and for a humane CAA
The Hindu’s RTI on NPR and Census 2021 is spreading misinformation
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Hindu’s RTI on NPR and Census 2021 story deliberately carries misleading information for readers that support the BJP propaganda on CAA.
Amit Shah’s West Bengal visit: A desperate attempt to woo Dalits and tribals
Reading Time: 6 minutes What is the purpose of Amit Shah’s West Bengal visit if not to set the BJP’s house in order and desperately woo the tribal people and Matuas?
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 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.
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.
Dissent in the times of COVID-19
Reading Time: 3 minutes The human race is stunned by the unprecedented rage of a virus. Moreover, the rightwing governments are utilising the opportunity to curb democratic rights.
Why Shaheen Bagh protest shouldn’t capitulate to Coronavirus panic?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Shaheen Bagh protest can’t capitulate to the panic-mongering over Coronavirus outbreak and Modi’s stunts because there is a bigger question in stake.
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