Khasi Students Union expresses opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill

THE ECONOMIC TIMES
DECEMBER 13, 2018
BIKASH SINGH

Khasi Students Union (KSU) has differed from the Meghalaya High Court's recent order and expressed its stout opposition to the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. 

Meghalaya High court had, recently, appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians, Khasis, Jaintias and Garos, who have come from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. 
Justice Sudip Ranjan Sen of Meghalaya High Court had said that "nobody should try to make India… another Islamic country, otherwise it will be a doomsday for India and the world". 
He had called the ongoing process of updation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) as defective for "as many foreigners become Indians and original Indians are left out which is very sad". 
On Monday, the High court gave a judgement asking the Prime Minister, Law Minister and Parliament to bring a legislation to allow citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, Christians, Khasis, Jaintias and Garos coming from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, without any question or documents. 
General Secretary of the KSU, Donald Thabah, said: "We would like to reiterate our stiff opposition to the proposed Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016. We completely disagree with the High court's recent appeal to the Prime Minister of India to grant instantaneous citizenship to the aforesaid groups once they seek refuge in India because the same was issued without taking into account all the aspects including the demographic structure of the North eastern states of India." 
Thabah stated that prior to the implementation of any international humanitarian act, the humanitarian perspective of the microscopic indigenous communities of north-east India should also be taken into account. 
The student body stated that it is known that there are approximately 14 million Hindus in Bangladesh. 
"In North-East India, for example in Meghalaya, there are only more than 1 million ethnic Khasis who are currently facing the wrath of unabated influx from migrants belonging to other communities. In the capital city of Shillong itself, the indigenous Khasi population constitutes not more 50 percent compared to past statistics," said Thabah. 

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