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Former Air Chief Marshal R K S Bhadauria joined the BJP on Sunday in the presence of Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur and party general secretary Vinod Tawde. Bhadauria said working with BJP would give him another chance at “nation-building”.
Former vice-chancellor of Calicut University M Abdul Salam is the lone Muslim face among about 290 BJP candidates that the party has announced so far for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The BJP’s minority morcha national vice-president, Salam has been fielded from Kerala’s Muslim-dominated Malappuram seat, which has been a traditional stronghold of Congress ally IUML. In an interview with The Indian Express, Salam speaks on a range of issues including the CAA row, Hindutva and the Muslim community’s approach towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
“Will much sought-after government jobs be given to Pakistanis … will limited resources of the country be used on two crore Pakistanis, Afghans and Bangladeshis?”
QUITE like Assam’s Barak Valley where its Bengali-speaking Hindus who have migrated from Bangladesh are not rushing to register under the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, in the Matua community in West Bengal, the initial euphoria over the implementation of the legislation has given way to apprehension.
The Election Commission has sounded the bugle for the Lok Sabha polls, with the BJP riding high on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity, Hindutva and welfarism, and the Opposition hoping to put up a challenge with a struggling INDIA bloc. All these stories were recorded and analysed by Urdu dailies this week as they stepped up their coverage of the world’s largest electoral exercise. The dailies also focused on the disquiet among Muslims in the wake of the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, with a large section apprehensive it is the first step towards a National Register of Citizens (NRC).
With the recent notification of rules for the implementation of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act or CAA — the passage of which had rocked the Northeast in 2019 — there are loud voices of dissent against it, but this time only in Assam and Tripura.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday slammed opposition leaders Asaduddin Owaisi and Mamata Banerjee for claiming that Citizenship (Amendment) Act was anti-Muslim. He also urged them to explain the reason for opposing the law and cited, ‘the law can't be seen in isolation.’
THE FRAMING of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) as a means to save “persecuted” Hindus from neighbouring Muslim-majority countries, assurance that no Indian citizen will lose their citizenship, and a complete silence on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) — this is how the Narendra Modi government is defining this time the contours of the controversial law, the rules of which were notified Monday.