'Last nail' for Trinamool !!
It goes without saying that polarisation politics has always suited the BJP.
Importantly yet again, conquering power in West Bengal or winning maximum of 42 seats will be a major achievement for the BJP and even the entire Sanghparivar, its fountainhead RSS.
If someone has some doubts. Let us make it easier ---- the entire north east sends 25 MPs including (Himanta-ruled Assam only 14) and West Bengal sends 42 MPs to Lok Sabha. The BJP won 18 of them in 2019, but the target is much higher for 2024.
In fact, earlier this month Modi told BJP workers that they should try to win all 42 seats from West Bengal.
In Assam, however, BJP's Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said his party may have to pay a political price for CAA implementation.
The Modi government can and will now start granting Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants -- Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhist and Parsis -- from these three countries. -- Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
However, the legislation was strongly resisted in 2019-20 and there were days of clashes in various parts of India including in Muslim-dominated Shaheen Bagh locality in the national capital, New Delhi.
The Act grants Indian nationality to Hindus, Parsis, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and Christians who had to reach out (or land) in Hindu-majority India due to "religious persecutions" from Muslim-majority Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan before December 31, 2014.
Muslim leader and AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi said the CAA is strictly 'divisive' and seeks to reduce Muslims as "second-class citizens".
Following violent protests, Modi’s government had not crafted implementation rules for the law after protests and sectarian violence broke out in New Delhi and also communally sensitive provinces like Assam in India's northeast bordering Bangladesh.
Several people were killed and hundreds injured during days of clashes after the 2019 enactment of the law.
“The Modi government announces implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act,” an official spokesperson said on March 11.
India is set to go for general elections and polls schedules are expected to be announced this week and after which the Model Code of Conduct will cripple Prime Minister Modi's government to take/announce any major policy decision.
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| Modi with two Assam BJP leaders Himanta & Sarbananda Sonowal |
It is a political masterstroke as it will help pro-Hindu and anti-Muslim polarisation in sensitive states such as West Bengal bordering Bangladesh. But it is also a double-edged sword as Shaheen Bagh and some sensitive pockets elsewhere in the country may witness violence before the polls,
Senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury says -- “This is only a ploy to polarise Hindu votes in the ensuing Lok Sabha elections. Otherwise, why did the Modi government take four years to notify the rules?".
Another Congress leader Jairam Ramesh wrote on X: “After seeking nine extensions for the notification of the rules, the timing right before the elections is evidently designed to polarise the elections, especially in West Bengal and Assam".
Rights groups have previously condemned the law.
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