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Narendra Modi y su segunda partición de la India

Dec 17, 2019 Shashi Tharoor

NUEVA DELHI – En momentos que la prioridad nacional de la India debería ser impulsar el crecimiento económico, el gobierno del Primer Ministro Narendra Modi ha preferido sumir al país en una nueva crisis política creada por ellos mismos.

Fiel a su afición a los movimientos tácticos sorpresivos, el gobierno impulsó en el parlamento un controvertido Proyecto de Enmienda de la Ley de Ciudadanía que acelera los trámites para personas que huyen de persecuciones en Pakistán, Afganistán y Bangladesh, siempre que no sean musulmanas. Al excluir a miembros de una comunidad en particular, el proyecto, que fue rápidamente firmado por el Presidente Ram Nath Kovind para convertirse en ley, se opone fundamentalmente a las tradiciones seculares y pluralistas del país. Como argumenté en el parlamento, se trata de una afrenta a los principios fundamentales de igualdad y no discriminación por creencias religiosas consagrados en nuestra Constitución y un ataque manifiesto a la idea misma de India por la que dieron la vida nuestros antepasados.

A medida que la lucha por la libertad de la India se acercaba a su objetivo, los nacionalistas indios se dividieron ante la pregunta de si la religión debía ser el determinante de la nacionalidad. Quienes creían que debía serlo, encabezados por Mohammed Ali Jinnah y sus seguidores, promovieron la idea de Pakistán como un país aparte para los musulmanes. Los demás, liderados por Mahatma Gandhi y Jawaharlal Nehru, argumentaron apasionadamente que la religión no tenía nada que ver con la nacionalidad. Su idea de la India llevó a un país libre en que tienen cabida todas las religiones, regiones, castas e idiomas.

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Murali Krishna Hari Jan 9, 2020

I think Mr Tharoor did not read the bill and does not understand it english. The bill is specific "Persecuted Minorities", how can a Muslim from Pakistan/Bangladesh/Afghanistan where official religion is Islam can become a Persecuted Minority. If any Muslim from those countries want to immigrate, there are other provisions in citizenship act.
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Priyanshu Sharma Jan 7, 2020

So, what you are saying Mr. Tharoor is , that there was indeed a mosque there right from the beginning. The Supreme court judgement specifically mentions the presence of a temple there. Instead of always trying to appease a particular community, why don't you and your party just think rationally?
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Bianca Bianca Dec 18, 2019

Is it BJP's doing or those deeds who fear the CAB? I mean there are some protestors who don't even know why they are protesting. They have heard tit-bits of information and ruled out their own law. Is it right on their behalf? Is it right of the political parties who are taking undue advantage of the lack of knowledge and using it for their own personal gains?

Irrelevant to the topic, I would like to point that link in author description is broken. The link redirects to a page not found.
- Ranjit Menon Jan 7, 2020
  
  Bianca Bianca - well said, an incredible amount of "intellectual" protestors have strawman arguments & for most of them the status quo of lack of documentation or social security numbers can go on as usual - & the resulting threat to national security considering we are dangerously close to a complete nutcase neighbour. The opposition did a DISASTROUS job in opportunistically stoking fear instead of attempting to add resolution to the complex nature of a historical bill that they themselves had proposed - yet never implemented.
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Tom Alter Dec 18, 2019

My understanding of this is different. The current act only seeks to fast track citizenship for persecuted minorities in the three neighbouring countries of India (which would obviously be non-Muslim, given that all these countries are Islamic states) and regulate economic migration, which all countries do (which would be the muslim population who might have crossed over for reasons other than persecution). Do not really see a communal angle to this as even persecuted Christians will be given fast track citizenship. It also does not disallow any muslim from seeking citizenship as per the laws of the land, just that there is no fast track for this. Let's not try to obfuscate facts and create an artificial crisis for political reasons.
- Ranjit Menon Jan 7, 2020
  
  Wow is this THE Tom Alter? well written! - instead of focusing on the humanitarian aspects of this law, this Congress opposition has serious "bad karma" on their hands in how they completely lopsided this effort. There is a difference between fast tracking and regular asylum process - that being said, it is also probably an attempt to identify sleeper cells and possible belligerents in the country.
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jagjeet sinha Dec 18, 2019

CROCODILE TEARS : THE URDU HEARTLANDS
Shedding crocodile tears has been a seven decade strategy.
This strategy succeeded in grabbing power for Seven Decades.
But the Economic Geography bequeathed by Dynasty's rule is a travesty.
Instead of bequeathing a legacy of superior economics, Dynasty was disaster.
The Urdu Heartlands Bypass marginalised their economics for Seven Decades.
Brokers for Secularism had economically bypassed The Marginalized Heartlands.
Rahul had to run away from The Heartlands to Kerala to secure his seat.
Priyanka had to shy away from The Heartlands - Goa perhaps safest.
Despite getting 3 seats in The Heartlands, the Author has not learnt.
Evidently strategy of crocodile tears is no longer working.
80% of BJP Parliament Winners belong to The Heartlands.

The Marginalized Heartlands have yet to garner benefits from Modinomics.
Neither demonetization nor GST would reverse the Economic Geography.
Instead the BJP cowboys found obfuscation focus away from Economics.
Focus on Kashmir and jingoism - secured a Second term for the BJP.
The failure of Congress Party to understand causes of their collapse was key.
Instead of attacking Modinomics failure to REALIGN ECONOMICS, religion again.
The Marginalized Urdu Heartlands remain economically bypassed.
But the Congress routinely remains oblivious.
Repeating Crocodile Tears is a Mantra that failed.
The BJP Cowboys perhaps by now applauding their Crocodile Tears Mantra.

Hinduism as non-secular while the other Global Religions as secular - is not ok.
But the Congress Party evidently believes in their Seven Decades Mantra.
Religion as the basis for Nationhood is wrong - in India in Britain in America.
But the the tragedy of Congress strategy is blatant - nay mercilessly exposed.
Their garb of Secularism to secure Power is in tatters.
- P. Kamath Dec 18, 2019
  
  OMG, OMG... what a drivel!
  - jagjeet sinha Dec 20, 2019
    
    Pk : Despite having agreed to earn respect at ProSyn by indulgence of your intelligence in comments on the Author's article, you keep misdirecting your voodoo interventions. Instead of debating What is Right, you prefer to determine Who is Right - always judgmental never objectively.
    Your admiration for the intelligence of Congress Court Jesters is interesting - perhaps you could guide readers at ProSyn which of the following are their most intellectual : Shashi Tharoor, Raghuram Rajan, Mani Shanker Iyer or Manish Tewari. Or, if Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi are rated higher.
    - P. Kamath Dec 26, 2019
      
      Thank you ,PS Editors for enforcing the rule that good taste be practised by commentators.
      
      Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year and fruitful New Years ahead.😃
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Curtis Carpenter Dec 17, 2019

Thank you for the clear explanation of the difficult situation facing the people of India.

It's tragic that India has now joined so many of the world's other democracies in undertaking a sharp turn to its particular version of the "ideological right." In my view, that turn is just one more indication that something very fundamental is happening, world-wide, the full implications of which lie just beyond the horizon of our understanding.
- P. Kamath Dec 18, 2019
  
  Curtis: Shashi Tharoor is a brilliant public intellectual who is the author of many books . He was a high official at UN could have retired in comfort. But he is in India fighting a corrupt right wing govt. It is not difficult to understand the reasons why a right wing party (BJP) in India has come to power. It is difficult to summarize in short comments. As a starter, I suggest the reader to read the following article printed in Newyorker magazine.
  
  A REPORTER AT LARGE DECEMBER 9, 2019 ISSUE
  BLOOD AND SOIL IN NARENDRA MODI’S INDIA
  The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
  By Dexter Filki
  
  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india
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