The Centre’s brutal crackdown on the protest against the CAA is a naked assertion of the allocation’s larger aim to fulfill the Sangh parivar’s Hindutva objective by corrupting all institutions founded on the Constitution and nurtured through it’s ideals and values.
“We enter Parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the dump of democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for the bear’s work, that is affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf burst into the flock, so we come”.
– Joseph Goebbels, in an article in the Nazi paper, (The Attack), dated April 30, 1928.
“Chronology” is a term that has repeatedly come up in the course of spirited nationwide agitation against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) and the consequent debate involving diverse segment of society, including the leadership of the Union government and a number of opposition parties. Home Minister Amit Shah has used the term with different nuances at different times, trying to drive home different, even contradictory, meanings.
Samajwadi Party (SP) president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress general Secretary Priyanka Gandhi have advanced their own interpretations as to what Amit Shah’s “chronology” reference means in “real terms”.