Letters to BS: India must unite to resist Citizenship (Amendment) Act

The passage of the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill (CAB), 2019, by Parliament marks a turning point in the country’s history. If a partition was imposed on the country in 1947, it has now done it on itself. The CAB is a law that technically and legally purports to give citizenship to only those who have come fleeing from the neighbouring countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Bangladesh — but whose effect, by its deliberate exclusion of some of these migrants on the basis of religion, is to affect the same segregation on its citizens internally. The entire northeast, which will be directly