-Scroll.in Michelle Bachelet also said that in Jammu and Kashmir, 800 people still remain under detention, following the abrogation of the region’s special status. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday expressed “great concern” over the Citizenship Amendment Act and reports of police inaction during the violence in Delhi. At least 37 people have been killed so far in violence between supporters and opponents of the Act. Addressing the...
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Cop out in Delhi: Police response invariably reflects the bias of the ruling party -Prakash Singh
-The Indian Express The police are, no doubt, to blame for not being able to function in an objective and impartial manner. There is definitely a failure of leadership also. But can political parties across the spectrum escape the blame for continuing to use the police as an instrument to further their political agenda? The ongoing violence in northeast Delhi, where at least 10 persons, including a head constable, were killed in...
More »PM Modi on CAA: 'Despite pressure, we stand by our decision'
-The Indian Express Widespread protests, largely led by women, against the amended law which grants citizenship to non-Muslim minorities from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh have cropped up in the last two months. Amidst the ongoing nationwide protest against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday reiterated that his government stands by the decision “despite all pressure”. “For years, India had been waiting for decisions like repealing Article 370 and...
More »'Will they take me away?' -Tora Agarwala
-The Indian Express As the narrative moves on to CAA and a possible nation-wide NRC, the Assam list hangs in a limbo. So does the fate of children out of it. The Centre has assured the Supreme Court, Parliament that such children, whose parents are on the list, won’t be taken to detention centres. But that hasn’t lessened their dread, of being sent away to “a place called Bangladesh”. Bongaigaon, Morigaon (Assam):...
More »How the Constituent Assembly debated (and rejected) citizenship by religion -Aditya Chatterjee
-TheWire.in Raging arguments over who was indeed Indian were put to rest with a vote that spoke in favour of an Article 5 without religious markers. P.S. Deshmukh had been famously disappointed with the job the drafting committee had done with the citizenship provision. The year was 1949. He had thought that Dr. Ambedkar’s definition of citizenship would make “Indian citizenship the cheapest on earth.” His grouse had been with citizenship by birth....
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