Citizenship amendment bill which was introduced in parliament on the 9th of December, called for a lot on contention throughout the country and student protests broke out amassing concerns regarding the same. The objective of the act is to redefine the definition of an illegal immigrant and take suitable measures to stop them from coming into the country. Under the act, fast track citizenship will be granted to Hindu, Sikh, Parsi, Christian and Buddhist immigrants who have been living undocumented in the Indian subcontinent. Muslims have been exempted from the same. Appeals to the supreme court went unheard and it denied any help until the violent protests in various parts of the country stop.
Anti CAA protestors have been fighting for many causes but the one that stands out in all of them remains, the indiscriminatory nature of the act towards the Muslims. The ruling party puts behind the unintelligent logic that other minorities have to run away from other Islam dominated countries and Hindus only have to come back to. Home minister Amit Shah blamed the entire fiasco on congress saying that CAA would never come in the scene if congress never agreed for the partition which was based on religion. When it comes to the younger generation showing its political inclinations, we see none. The BJP and the opposition have rocked the student cradles aggressively ever since Indira Gandhi came into power and this neutral stand has led to a very drastic downfall in their regime. Even though the party came into power for the second time last year in 2019, a social cry for a reformative movement has been called for by lakhs and lakhs of students around the country. Students are pegged as ‘bacche log’ (children) as stated by the Home Minister, Amit Shah. BJP has thus been experiencing a downfall in its regime that started not right now, but years ago when the masses learned that unemployment has been its highest in the last 45 years, poverty is ever-increasing and foreign investment has been on the decline. With the introduction of the CAA (Citizen Amendment Act), fuel has been added to the fire and BJP is receiving its most brutal backlash.
Social media sites like Instagram and Twitter have become primary news sources for students and people aged 15-25 because of the contamination and stagnation of news organizations like Republic TV and NDTV. Channels like Zee News, Aaj Tak, News18 and India Today have been bought by the ruling party and have poisoned the very ethics and basis of good journalism. Therefore, the student population and the youngsters have shifted platforms from the above to neutral (or leftist platforms) like The Quint, ScoopWhoop and BuzzFeed. The news on Instagram however is a classic example of Community Journalism where millions and millions of people contribute their sources and opinions on a large scale. The information shared is first-hand, researched, provided with reliable sources and cited properly.
In Assam, one of the essential criteria was that the names of candidate’s relatives ought to either be in the main NRC arranged in 1951 or in the appointive moves up to March 24, 1971. Other than that, candidates likewise had the choice to introduce archives, for example, displaced person enrollment testament, birth declaration, LIC approach, land and occupancy records, citizenship authentication, identification, government provided permit or endorsement, bank/post office accounts, perpetual private declaration, government business endorsement, instructive testament and court records.
“Exclusion of an individual’s name in the NRC doesn’t without anyone else sum to him/her being pronounced an outsider,” govt has said. Such people will have the choice to introduce their case before outsiders’ councils. In the event that one loses the case in the council, the individual can move the high court and, at that point, the Supreme Court. On account of Assam, the state government has explained it won’t keep any person until he/she is pronounced an outsider by the outsiders’ court.
The above chart analyses the age groups which are active with their usage and those groups that are evidently not. We come to a conclusion that states that the age-groups of 18-24 and 25-34 are the most frequent users and has turned Instagram into a platform for students and young adults whose ideologies are poles apart from those of our parents, grandparents, the previous generation. A stark difference in the ideological propagation on platforms like Instagram and Facebook can be seen. On Facebook, the user age-group that’s seen to be active are men and women over the ages of 35-40 having an opinion that is pro-CAA and pro-BJP. Therefore, Facebook has been relegated for those who are pro-CAA (because of the play of a specific age group) and Instagram has been deemed as one for the students who are anti-CAA and anti-BJP. The legislature has set up NRC Seva Kendras in each locale of Assam, which help individuals in scanning for Legacy Data, giving of Legacy Data Code, and in receipt of NRC Application structures.
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The 1951 NRC in Assam:
NRC for Indian residents in Assam was first made in 1951. Manipur and Tripura were additionally conceded authorization to make their very own NRCs, yet it never emerged. The purpose for the move was to distinguish Indian residents in Assam in the midst of “unabated” relocation from East Pakistan (presently Bangladesh). The rundown involved the individuals who lived in India on January 26, 1950, or were conceived in India or had guardians who were conceived in India or had been living in India for at any rate five years before the January 26, 1950 cut-off.
CONCLUSION
Incidentally enough, there isn’t sufficient information to either bolster or contradict this misgiving. According to the census survey of 2011, Assam has more than 90 lakh Bengali speakers against 1.5 crore Assamese speakers. The number has expanded from about 1.3 crore Assamese and 73 lakh Bengalis in the 2001 census. The progressive statistics reports have not determined precisely what number of among these Bengalis are Hindus and what number are Muslims, which makes it hard to lead an unbiased investigation about the careful demographic example of this supposed migration.
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