Скачать или смотреть CAA/NRC/NPR - Unconstitutional and an International Disgrace | Press Conference and Public Briefing

On 3rd January, 2020, senior bureaucrats and scholars came together to highlight the “unconstitutional” and “nationally divisive” nature of the citizenship amendments in a public briefing organised by the Constitutional Conduct Group and Karwan e Mohabbat. The speakers including Faizan Mustafa, Deb Mukharji, Nitin Desai, Zoya Hasan, Shivshankar Menon, Gautam Bhatia, Niraja Jayal, Navsharan Singh, Mohsin Alam Bhat and Harsh Mander kept their arguments forward on how the recently passed CAA provides citizenship to Sikhs, Parsis, Christians, Buddhists, Jains and Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, leaving out Muslims. Citizenship, grounded on the basis of religion, undermines secularism as any religion, apart from the “state religion” in a country can be deemed as a “persecuted religion”.