TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Amid raging anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests, a civil-society group led by former minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday urged the government to consider roll back of the controversial citizenship law to break the cycle of peoples’ resistance and adoption of harsh counter-measures.
The youth-led protests by people of all faiths have been met with use of unduly harsh measures by the state that has so far resulted in over two-dozen deaths, injuries to hundreds and destruction of public property, said the Concerned Citizens’ Group in a statement signed by Mr Sinha, Former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, Air Vice Marshal (retired) Kapil Kak and journalist Bharat Bhushan.
The hasty enactment of the patently discriminatory Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and fears on related extension of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to the whole country have triggered these protests, the group said. The core message the protestors conveyed to the government is that the CAA, founded on religious basis of citizenship, is aimed against the nation”s principal minority, violates its rights and upends the fundamentals of India”s constitutional nationhood, it said.
