CorCom points to hidden agenda behind CAB-1
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 23 2019:
As in the past years, armed groups of the North East have come together to announce yet another boycott of Republic Day, which falls on January 26 .
In a joint statement issued to the press today, CorCom, ULFA-I and National Liberation Front of Twipra (NLFT) asked peoples of WeSEA region to boycott the Republic Day celebration.
Alleging that the Indian State's pretence, deceit and suppression of the peoples have been exposed repeatedly, the joint statement added that it is in continuation of this that the Lok Sabha passed the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 hastily, that is, within 24 hours of the submission of a report on the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 .
The contents of the report indicate that the Committee and its report was merely a screen to legitimise a hidden policy, it alleged and added that India had already taken a firm decision, much before they introduced the Bill in the Parliament.
Citing examples, the outfits said that on December 7, 2015, the Ministry of Home Affairs notified the controversial clauses that were subsequently inserted in the Bill.
The fact that Lok Sabha passed the Bill on January 8, was a mere legislative drama or a final touch on a well-engineered plan, it alleged further.
The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill amended the principal Act so as to insert, "...persons belonging to minority communities, namely, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan, ...shall not be treated as illegal migrants ...[and their] aggregate period of residence or service of a Government in India as required under this clause shall be read as "not less than six years" in place of "not less than eleven years," cited the joint statement.
Many Indian Nationalists protest the Bill on the ground that it violates secularism and serves Hindutva agenda, said the outfits and added that it is true that on its face value the Bill conveys an open assertion of religiously communalised nationalist hype centred on Hindutva, ie identifying India with Hinduism.