They are now starting a NRC in the rest of India where government will "throw out" infiltrators.
The ruling party launched said NRC in the state of Assam with much pomp but after it realised that more Hindus were left out of NRC, even the Assam unit of ruling party refused to accept it.
What's ironic is that the SC had ruled for an NRC and not the government and even the govt had accepted that NRC doesn't mean people who don't get on it will be expelled.
Pakistan & Bangladesh have a history of ethnic cleansing of non muslims. You are suggesting that Indians should welcome undocumented muslim migration from these countries at the cost & risk of the citizens.
I would like to find an example of another country in your liberal utopia that is willing to do that. Europe? USA?
Ah, so is that the reason why NRC will be conducted only in Muslim dominated areas? Is this the reason why no Muslims will not be thrown out but Muslims will be?
This isn't about illegal migrants, it's about Muslim migrants
And p.s. Assam NRC excluded an ex President's son and an Army Major who fought in Kargil, both Muslims.
There are a couple of problems with this argument.
The most important problem is that many people do not have documentation, but have lived in India for a very long time—since birth, in some cases—and think of themselves and live their lives as Indians.
More specifically:
First, India arguably also has a history of ethnic cleansing and more broadly ethnoreligiously motivated violence, a history that is all too often suppressed.
From the Sunderlal Report: “We can say at a very conservative estimate that in the whole state at least 27 thousand to 40 thousand people lost their lives during and after the police action. …Duty also compels us to add that we had absolutely unimpeachable evidence to the effect that there were instances in which men belonging to the Indian Army and also to the local police took part in looting and even other crimes. During our tour we ga thered, at not a few places, that soldiers encouraged, persuaded and in a few cases even compelled the Hindu mob to loot Muslim shops and houses.”
Similarly, the Gujarat riots suggest state complicity. It is often suggested that Muslims caused the violence. The truth is that the violence was initially by Hindus, on the train, that some Muslims then unjustifiably burnt the train, and then that the state compounded the tragedy by allowing Hindu mobs to rampage across the state, if not actively encouraging them to do so.¹
(To be clear I do not endorse the silence of some parts of the Indian left and liberal élite concerning Pakistan and Bangladesh; it is as abhorrent to me as silence concerning the violence of the Sangh Parivar. And I should probably say that if they had to be compared the Sangh Parivar is better than the Pakistani army.)
Second, it’s not obvious where the “cost and risk” is. No evidence has been produced to suggest that those left out of the NRC commit more crime or cost the state more. Indeed, the implementation of the NRC itself costs the state rather a lot, and threatens to encourage sedition in the northeast.
Third, all parties in India profess to reject two-nation theory. The RSS itself claims that Muslims are also children of Mother India.² And of course Congress claim to support a secular India. Since there is political consensus on this matter of course the idea that loyalty to Bharat or India or whatever conception thereof one supports should be determined independently of religion.
Fourth, many European states indeed have welcomed large numbers of Muslim migrants, often to much greater cost than what India has incurred—for example, Germany and Sweden. These actions need not have been unsustainable had all Europe helped; similarly, migration to India as a whole is not particularly unsustainable because India is very large.
1. Christophe Jaffrelot, “Communal Riots in Gujarat: The State at Risk?” Working Paper, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics (Heidelberg: South Asia Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Heidelberg, July 2003), http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/4127/1/hps....
The Razakars were armed and highly organised muslim milita supporting the nizam in Hyderabad. They went on a killing spree against the natives who though in numerical majority were unorganized villages. The report even if it is true and is not politically motivated still pales in comparison to the systemic and continues cleansing of 10s of millions that continue to this day in Pakistan.
As for the European generosity they take a tiny fraction compared to India. They insist on integration, which would be politically incorrect in India. Some countries like France and Denmark have already banned the hijab.
Religion is a tiny fraction of a person's identity, but if it comes to eclipse everything then your loyalty to your society that is pluralistic is suspect.
They knew all along that they were illegal migrants. Considering that some of them have only been forced into islam in not more than three generations ago, it is possible that they might convert back to their native roots and claim asylum.
On the Razakars etc.: the report is unimpeachable—Nehru commissioned the report but it besmirches his claim to have unified India relatively peacefully. And yes I acknowledged above that Pak is worse—10s of millions is probably a high figure for ethnic cleansing at the moment but I can’t really defend what’s happening in Balochistan.
Europe: because things have been so poorly managed reasonably high proportions (~1%) have been accepted. Also I don’t see why integration is needed in India given very great cultural proximity.
As for knowing they were illegal migrants, some don’t—the need for papers only became apparent recently and some can’t find them. This is an unavoidable problem.
What was great about India compared to Pakistan was the fact that it was a tolerant multi-ethnic democracy that may emulate Europe and North American democracy and become a stable functional multi-faced growing democracy. That dreams seems to be giving away to India another country very much like Pakistan which has little tolerance for anybody. If this non-sense keeps up who knows maybe the military takes over the country taking cues from Modhi's strongman tactics. That has been in fact one major downfall of Pakistan.
No special favors to be doled out to anyone irrespective of religion. Muslims were favored as minorities by all Congress Governments for votes, which is no longer the case. That hurts many, who scream Muslims are being sidelined. No, they are actually being treated fairly as citizens of India and have the same rights as anyone else. We don't want a case of "Everyone is equal. Some are more equal than others".
Well, you certainly do offend, by ad-hominem, as opposed to providing contrasting data.
NYT and WaPo is an echo-chamber of left-leaning (well, ultra-left as in Antifa may be a stretch, I do agree) liberals who advocate open-borders, increased illegal immigration, increased Government oversight in all aspects of life.
The ruling party launched said NRC in the state of Assam with much pomp but after it realised that more Hindus were left out of NRC, even the Assam unit of ruling party refused to accept it.
What's ironic is that the SC had ruled for an NRC and not the government and even the govt had accepted that NRC doesn't mean people who don't get on it will be expelled.