Day 456

    I wish belated greetings of Maha Shivratri to my readers. Yesterday, the marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva with Goddess Parvati was celebrated across the nation. Yesterday, I missed my days at Varanasi. The Maha Shivratri is celebrated with huge pump and show at Varanasi. At Varanasi, Maha Shivratri is celebrated at double the energy level. It seems that energy level is in the atmosphere. Tiredness and negative energies doesn’t enter in anybody during Maha Shivratri. There are so much parades and pump and show in Varanasi. Oh God, those were the days. Having the Darshan of Lord Shiva on any day is a bliss and having it on Maha Shivratri is a grand bonanza.

    I know that I’m getting nostalgic. Let’s come back to the present. Well, there are a lot of things happening around me which are forcing me to write something on all those topics. But it’s not possible to write on all those topics. So, now the major concern is choosing the right topic. Well, I can’t say that whatever topic which I’ll chose will be the right one because it’s going to be extempore. But, there is a topic on which I want to write but I don’t know how to start it. I don’t intend to hurt anyone by my thought and my words. That’s why I have been avoiding that topic since a long time and after a long urge to write it soon.

    It’s about CAA. I think it’s not such a bad law of which there has to be so many protest across the country. There have been a long list of protests after the CAA has been enforced into law by the Indian Parliament. This law has been made by the Indian government and the amendment includes Hindus, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Christian and Parsi immigrants along with Sri Lankan Tamils in India, Buddhist refugees from Tibet, Rohingya from Myanmar. But the protest is polarised on the sole reason that Muslim migrants aren’t included in CAA and NRC.

     Now see the difference. CAA and NRC isn’t touching the Muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries of India. Side by side, both the laws aren’t blaming Muslims living in India as outsiders. In both the laws, Muslims living in India are treated as Indians like people of other religions. But the sad part is that the opposition political parties has joined two different things in one thing to defame the Modi government. I want to ask Indian National Congress to prove that where the Modi government has said anything about the Muslims already living in India. Indian government is trying to stop the illegal immigrants coming from Bangladesh and Myanmar. But Indian National Congress is doing the same which British used to do Indians before independence.

    There are various regional parties which hasn’t understood the CAA properly and are in the government in their respective states have also said that they won’t implement CAA in their respective states. They have said that just because of having ideological differences with the BJP. But they are forgetting that the CAA and NRC has been passed in both houses of the Indian parliament and the states don’t have much choice of not implementing the CAA and NRC. Well, it’s another topic to talk about when a law is passed at the Indian parliament and the law passed by the state legislative assemblies. The hierarchy always says that the states don’t have any option when a law is passed in both houses of the Indian parliament.

    Well, the protest is just outcome of the misunderstanding of the acts and amendments. It’s nothing more than that. There are many individuals from various section of the society who are protesting the CAA and NRC. I want to know from them that can they explain that the CAA and NRC has said anything about the Muslims born in India. The clear answer is no. Both CAA and NRC is talking about the illegal immigrants coming from Myanmar and other neighbouring countries. NRC is talking about the sorting the illegal immigrants in Assam since 1951 to 1971 to know the illegal immigrants living in India.

    I don’t think that the union government is doing anything wrong. It’s just like having the population census and thus providing the facilities based on the data collected. In fact, the government is ready to relax the required the required number of years from 11 years to 5 years to get Indian citizenship by naturalisation to the migrants covered under the CAA and NRC. But the plus points of the act has been withheld by the political parties to gain their political aims. This is the thing which is very disturbing.

    Few years back, I remember that many celebrities from Bollywood and many writers have given back their awards back to the union government because according to them India had become an intolerant country and its most unsafe place in the world to live. Now the same persons are advocating against the CAA and NRC. I want to ask them that if they were feeling so much unsafe in India then why didn’t they left the country and went to the country of their choice. What has happened in last six years that the most intolerant country in the world has become the safest place for the immigrants to live?

    I think these individuals across the various section of the society are misguided by some foreign organisations. They have become the spokesperson of those organisations in India. Indeed, the face and voice is of these individuals but the original thought is of someone else. Actually, all these persons, themselves, are threat to the country and Indians are tolerating them. What another example they need to have tolerance in India? I think that very soon they will realise that the CAA and NRC is to unite the India not to divide India.

    They sooner they understand this the better it will be. Then only there will be peace and harmony in the country. I would like to say that don’t become ideological puppet in the hands of political parties. These political parties are expert in using the feelings of the mass to achieve their political gains. So, once again, I would request all to use your wisdom.