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Veracity of news apart, these media leaks by central intelligence agenices provide a good insight into why the Modi government is frozen when it comes to applying the CAA. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/muslim-refugees-become-christians-to-take-caa-benefit/articleshow/77117484.cms
When the CAA was under discusssion, the IB had raised fears that the act would be misused. Hence it had asked for a "strict antecedent verification process" controlled by Foreigners Tribunals and for people to prove that they were victims of persecution. https://scroll.in/article/937968/special-report-will-the-citizenship-amendment-bill-really-help-bangladeshi-hindus-become-indian
Of course, as many activists working with Bangladeshi migrants have pointed out: if there is such a srict verification process, how will anyone benefit from the CAA at all?
This paradox is background to why the CAA is stuck. https://scroll.in/article/955754/caa-was-passed-three-months-ago-why-has-the-modi-government-still-not-implemented-it
This paradox is background to why the CAA is stuck. https://scroll.in/article/955754/caa-was-passed-three-months-ago-why-has-the-modi-government-still-not-implemented-it
As the CAA gets stuck in a byzantine loop of its own making, a reminder that India had a well-functioning refugee registration programme for East Bengali migrants right till 1971.
Crores of people crossed over under it.
Says much that it wasn't simply revived.
Crores of people crossed over under it.
Says much that it wasn't simply revived.
Part of the answer to that is incompetence. The BJP is led by people who have no idea how the Bengal partition worked (not even the basics, as the Assam NRC debacle shows).
And partly turpitude: the old law might be efficacious but it wouldn't allow for a grand tamasha.
And partly turpitude: the old law might be efficacious but it wouldn't allow for a grand tamasha.
