The use of police force against students of Delhi's Jamia University on Sunday has opened up the debate of the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 [CAB], which is an altered version of the Citizenship Amendment Act [CAA] and the National Register of Citizens of India [NRC] on a wider level.
Besides common citizens who have taken to protest against the amended law and a speculated proposal of a nation-wide NRC (so far only implemented in Assam), well known public personalities including Indian film celebrities have started expressing their distrust with the same.
Tamil director Karthik Subbaraj is one if the few Indian celebrities to send out a strong opposition to the government and taking to his twitter account, Subbaraj has stated, "This land is for anyone, it isn't one particular's ancestral property". The director of acclaimed films like Pizza, Jigarthanda and Petta also batted for a secular India by registering his dismay with the CAA, CAB and the NRC.
Citizenship Amendment Act - Sounds seriously wrong & against Secularism..
— karthik subbaraj (@karthiksubbaraj) December 17, 2019
Let's keep India Secular
Say NO to CAA
Say NO to NRC
Say NO to Police Violence on Students
இந்த பூமி எவனுக்கும் , அவன் அப்பன் வீட்டு சொத்து கிடையாது..... #IndiansAgainstCAB #JamiaProtests
There has been a nation-wide protest against the CAB because it is believed to be introduced to gap the loop-holes in NRC, which incidentally provided that there are as many Hindu citizens in our country who don't have documentary proof of citizenship as Muslims.
NRC requires that any undocumented citizen be shifted to a detention camp [A work-in-the-making since earlier this year at Assam] and the protection to non-Muslims from CAB would mean only Muslims would end up in those camps, in addition to loosing all rights to being Indian.