How India’s Right-Wing Government Is Trying to Institutionalize Discrimination Against Muslim Migrants

‘On the eve of the recently conducted elections in several states, an irregular decision was taken by the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) reviewing the Citizenship Amendment Bill of 2016, which is another clear effort of the far-right regime in New Delhi to redefine the contours of Indian citizenship.
Rather brazenly trying to make a distinction between which color (read faith) of immigrant would be “naturally” entitled to Indian citizenship as an immigrant, what the Narendra Modi-led government, which enjoys a brute majority in the lower house of India’s parliament, seeks to do is to privilege the non-Muslim migrant over the Muslim.
The lower house of parliament has passed the Bill which is now being re-considered by a Joint Parliamentary Committee.’
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