//php if(!empty($last_str)){if(!preg_match('~[0-9]+~', $first_str)){echo $title;}else{echo $last_str; }}else{echo $title;}?>The CAA and the NRC: Exploring Possible Solutions
Sanjeev Tripathi
11 January 2020
10.48561/1w17-sw52
India is presently embroiled in a controversy that followed the enactment of the Citizenship
Amendment Act (CAA) in December 2019. Detractors of the Act have exploited the fact that
Muslims are excluded from the Act and ignored that the Act is specifically aimed at giving
relief to minorities from India’s three Islamic neighbours who have taken shelter in India
because of persecution on religious ground. There is fear among Indian Muslims that the Act
is directed at them. Widespread demonstrations against the Act are being held with many of
them turning violent and resulting in arson, destruction of property and casualties among
the demonstrators and the police.