Diabolic Game Against The Citizenship Act

This morning I had gone to mybarber’s shop owned by aMuslim.

- Prakash Nanda

He, along with his colleagues, appeared quite agitated over the newly amended Citizenship Act. I asked him what was in the Act he was opposed to. How did the Amendment affect him? “I do not know, Sir. But my uncle, who is a Congress activist, says that we Muslims will have no voting rights. Even I saw Ravish Kumar in NDTV Hindi saying Modi has done this deliberately to denigrate the Muslims”. It was nice of my barber that he got convinced and felt assured when I explained what the Act was and that it did not have anything that an Indian Muslim should be afraid of.

The point I am making is that the nationwide protests against the Citizenship Act that we are witnessing are devoid of any merits. These protests are doubtlessly orchestrated, and that too predominantly in Muslim-majority areas, including universities, by vested interests with clear mischief in mind. In the following paragraphs let me describe the comments of leaders of two opposition parties – the Congress and CPM – that, among others, are at the forefront of these protests. The readers may draw their own conclusions as to the double-standards these political parties have on the issue.