Illegitimate protests on CAB?

Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government got passed Citizenship Amendment Bill from both houses of Parliament.

- RAVI MISHRA

The legislation says that any person belonging to Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi or Christian community from Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, who entered into India on or before the 31st of December, 2014, due to religious persecution shall not be treated as illegal migrant for the purposes of this Act. Most importantly, this will not be applicable for Muslims from these countries. Owing to this, violent protests like stone pelting, destroying railway properties and vandalism in various states have erupted. In this perspective, it cannot be gainsaid that some so-called secular political parties are trying to use it as a tool to grab Muslim votes by misguiding Muslims. Everyone in the world knows that Afghanistan, Pakistan and also Bangladesh are most vulnerable countries for religious minorities like Hindus, Sikhs, Parsis and Christians. And, if the world is not concerned about the human rights of Hindus and other religious minorities in these Islamic nations, then India will have to take some steps regarding this. When Hindus and Sikhs are persecuted anywhere in the world, most of the human rights organisations become a mute spectator. Recently, when a Sikh leader was killed in Afghanistan, we didn’t see the kind of outrage, as we saw in Asia Bibi blasphemy case in Pakistan. It is only because Asia Bibi was Christian, not a Hindu or a Sikh. Statistic shows that in the wake of Bangladesh liberation war, according to some estimates, more than 10 million Bangladeshi refugees, many of them Hindus,