The process of identifying infiltrators will be through the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which is already being implemented in Assam. The discussions and political diatribe on NRC in Assam have generated three notions or claims, based on facts, but devoid of logic. ‘Not anti-Muslim’That the NRC process is not tainted by any religious prejudice is an argument that the government of India has sought to project internationally. Here again, the NRC process can be understood only in conjunction with the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. The NRC process, however, has long outgrown the mandate of the SC and its strictures and has become a showpiece item for the nationalist politics of the BJP.

Source: The Hindu October 10, 2019 13:52 UTC