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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | If Parliament passes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, India's constitutional structure, as we know it, will lose its soul -Harsh Mander

If Parliament passes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, India's constitutional structure, as we know it, will lose its soul -Harsh Mander

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published Published on Dec 12, 2019   modified Modified on Dec 12, 2019
-The Indian Express

The CAB-NRC poses the gravest threat to India’s secular democratic constitution since India became a republic, and must be fought with a nation-wide civil disobedience movement. The contours of this struggle need to be worked out by We the People.

Despite being under constant siege, the edifice of India’s Constitution has endured so far. The onslaught has intensified since the expanded mandate to the Narendra Modi government in May.

However, if Parliament passes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, India’s constitutional structure will cave in. Make no mistake. The Constitution will not need to be rewritten. But, its soul will be annihilated. A new nation will emerge from its rubble — wrathful, muscular, majoritarian, and inhospitable to its minorities.

This Bill weighs upon tangled contestations of belonging and rights. Who belongs to India, and on what terms? And indeed, who does India belong to? A young Bengali-origin Assamese poet Kazi Neel lamented, “This land is mine. But I am not of this land”. He loves India, but India refuses to own him.

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The Indian Express, 11 December, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/this-land-is-mine-citizenship-amendment-bill-6160570/


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