'The most significant outcome of this movement is that it has helped people shed the fear that had held them back from freely expressing their views for five and a half years.' Opinion | g_smita
As India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party , approaches its seventh year in power at the Centre, it is evident that it has reached its first real challenge. There may be no leader visible yet on the political horizon who can challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supremacy, and no single party that can challenge the BJP’s dominance.
The National Register of Citizens appeared to be targeted against Muslims — and the poor of all communities — as they would face the greatest difficulties providing documentation related to birth and ownership of land. The Citizenship Amendment Act, on the other hand, provides for persecuted minorities in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan allowing them to be fast tracked to citizenship.
Clearly, the consequences of the BJP’s citizenship/illegal migrant project have not been thought through by the Modi government, which remains focussed on polarising society on religious lines to win elections. Yet it is an opportune moment for the opposition: if provincial elections between 2014 and 2017 saw the BJP go from ruling a handful of provinces to two-thirds of the country, since then, it has been rapidly losing provincial polls, despite its continued success in the general elections. It is now roughly ruling only one-third of the country.
The voices you are hearing now are challenging a political project: indeed, there is a new slogan out on the streets that is a direct challenge to the present government: “You divide - we multiply.’’
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