If you listened only to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporters on Twitter, you would get the impression that nationwide protests against t...
If you listened only to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s supporters on Twitter, you would get the impression that nationwide protests against the Citizenship Act amendments, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register are all based on malicious misinformation and lies.
Yet it has been clear that, since December, Opposition-ruled state governments and even BJP allies, like the Shiromani Akali Dal, have raised genuine concerns about the CAA-NRC-NPR combination, meaning it is not just the people on the streets. Now there is another voice in the mix: the BJP itself. Or, to be precise, the BJP’s Bihar unit.
On Tuesday, the Bihar Assembly passed a resolution against the implementation of the NRC in the state. It also resolved to have the NPR, which many see as the foundation on which an eventual NRC will be based, stick to the questions that had been asked in the same process in 2010, without additional ones about the date and place of parents’ birth.
Significantly, the Assembly resolutions were unanimous. That means the Members of Legislative Assembly from the BJP, in power in the state as the junior partner of the ruling Janata Dal (United), also voted to say that there will be no NRC in Bihar...
