Argument about CAA between AAP and BJP: pointless

The renowned playwright William Shakespeare said, “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her,” in his 1623 comedy “Much Ado About Nothing.” Thus, we have been seeing a “merry war” of words over the last week between Delhi BJP president Virendra Sacheva and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal about the notice of the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019.

The Indian Parliament enacted the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) on December 11, 2019. before offering an expedited route to Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan who arrived in India before 2014, it modified the Citizenship Act, 1955. The following minorities were listed as eligible: Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, and Hindus.

Since the statute for the first time in Indian law history explicitly employs religion as a factor for citizenship, the notice, which came before of the general elections, has sparked significant debate. As was to be expected, it has led to demonstrations, particularly in the areas of the country that border Bangladesh, where a sizable portion of the Muslim population has relocated.

From an electoral perspective, there was concern that a significant portion of the minority community’s members may lose their rights, which would negatively impact the standing of the parties that received support from the minority population as well as those that did not. Neither the number of non-Muslim migrants nor the presence of Muslim migrants in Delhi as a whole would significantly increase the number of Muslim migrants on the voting registers. So why is the prime minister sobbing uncontrollably?

The arrogance of these Pakistanis! Kejriwal remarked in a post on the microblogging platform X. They broke our laws by first entering our nation illegally. They ought to have been incarcerated. Do they really think they can cause instability by protesting in our country? Following the adoption of the CAA, citizens would be harassed by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who will proliferate across the nation. Because it wants to use them as a voting bank, the BJP is generating problems for the whole nation.

CM of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal
Why the CAA has polarized politics
The goal of the whole endeavor is to instill a sense of unease not just among the 20 percent or so Muslim voters in the nation’s capital but also in Gujarati constituencies where the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has fielded candidates for the next Lok Sabha elections. The granting of citizenship to Hindu immigrants from Pakistan’s neighboring province of Sindh is a significant problem in Gujarat.

“Kejriwal is himself a ‘Andolanjeevi’ who owes his political career to demonstrations and it is shameful that today he is abusing persecuted Hindus from Pakistan and Afghanistan who are demonstrating for their rights,” retorted Virendra Sachdeva, the head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Delhi unit. The Chief Minister has brought shame to all Punjabis who crossed across from Pakistan to India following the 1947 split by mistreating these migrants. Sachdeva has his own grievances to air by stating this.

Politics in Delhi, particularly the BJP’s, have always centered around the Bania and Punjabi politicians. The Punjabi trinity of Madanlal Khurana, Kidar Nath Sahni, and Vijay Kumar Malhotra firmly dominated the BJP in the national capital until late chief minister Saheb Singh Verma appeared on the horizon. The leadership has mostly stayed between the Bania and Punjabi populations, despite the emergence of a fourth component in the shape of Purvanchal leaders.

Being a member of the Punjabi community himself, Sachdeva bears the heavy burden of ensuring that his protégé, Harsh Malhotra, wins the Lok Sabha seat from East Delhi. East Delhi was designated as the Punjabi quota seat in the 2019 seat distribution for the nation’s capital.

Therefore, the argument between Kejriwal and Sachdeva is more about politics than it is about what will happen to the non-Muslim immigrants who are waiting to become citizens.