Reality of Citizenship Amendment Act, CAA

The Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019 which was passed in Lok sabha states that if any person is from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community who has come from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Bangladesh on or before December 31st, 2014 and is resident in India today. They would no longer remain illegal migrants, they would now be granted citizenship. In order to justify this, Amit Shah said that this bill basically protects the persecuted minorities of these countries. Because of all these faiths mentioned in the bill these are basically the faiths that are attacked a lot and are discriminated against in these three countries - Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Therefore, we are providing them an escape route through this bill. We are inviting them to India and providing them security and a better future. It might seem logical to hear, in a sense, because there have been cases in Bangladesh where Hindus or other minorities have been attacked. But this argument quickly loses merit when you see that there are many more persecuted minorities in these three countries which need help, which are facing discrimination and which are not mentioned in this bill like, Ahmedis and Shias in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. They are generally referred as Muslims, so to speak, but the other Muslims in Pakistan don't consider these sects and communities as Muslims. So they have to face a lot of discrimination. Atheists also have to face a lot of discrimination in Islamic countries. There are attacks and hate crimes against them but there are no provision for these persecuted minorities in this bill. So this bill is selectively protecting some minorities and communities and it is ignoring some. It order to counter this, a lot of people say that there are more than 50 Islamic countries in this world. If the Shias and Ahmedis are facing any discrimination so they should go to one of these more than 50 Islamic countries that's not our problem. Because since they are Muslims and if there is a discrimination amongst them then there are lot of Islamic countries to invite them.

Problems in this logic:-

▪️What about the atheists..? The ones who do not comply with any faith, where would they go..?

▪️If we start discriminating amongst people taking religion into consideration then India cannot be called a secular country.

And if this happens, then the international reputation of India is going to fall down to the level of Pakistan, that is the country that defines itself on the basis of religion. Look the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Now some people here would say that we want such a state.. We want India to become a Hindu Rashtra. And I would like to say to such people, have you looked at the condition of these countries..!! All the countries across the world that defines themselves on the basis of religion that, for them , religion is at the top in the Constitution. What is the condition of such countries..?? They are the lowest ranked countries in terms of development. Look at all the top most developed countries across the world for example the European countries, USA, Japan, Australia, Singapore all of these countries are secular and then look at the lowest ranked countries of the world where a lot of fights ensue, the most underdeveloped countries. There are faith related fights for sure there. Then our country too, would stoop to those levels and become like them but if you want our country to scale heights, then we need to remain secular.
In my opinion, the real reason behind this bill is that the BJP wants to hit multiple targets with a single arrow.