BY RADHIKA RAMASESHAN Farooq Abdullah’s release, Shah’s promise to strike the D list from the CAA and the SAARC initiative are meant to placate global naysayers Over the past week, as a deadly pandemic blanketed all else in India, including the disturbing aftermath of the Delhi violence, the Modi government assured Parliament it will drop the deathly ‘D’ letter from the National Register of Indian Citizens. Amit Shah, the home minister, stated in the Rajya Sabha that no citizen will be listed as “doubtful” if he/she does not show the documents required under the NRIC process. Nobody celebrated the declaration of the “assurances” because of the Centre’s interminable flip-flops on what the citizenship law mandates and what it does not. The turnarounds do not inspire confidence in Shah’s words. So far, the Citizenship Rules, 2003, empowers a local registrar to mark a person out as “doubtful” during verification. The rules can be tweaked through an executive order but when Shah spoke on March 12, they remained unchanged. A parliamentary affirmation is cast in stone and the minister can be held to his word. Then came Prime Minister’s call to the near-moribund SAARC to pencil a combat Covid-19 blueprint, initially through… Read full this story
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