Thread by @RadhikaBarman5

We shouldn't believe 2 two types of people in this world:

1)A religious leader who promotes politics.
2)A politician who promotes a particular religion.

Both are equally perilous because when religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1088716212970885120

Scrap the Citizenship Amendment Bill 2016. Religious affiliation has nothing to do with citizenship. Stand by the people of Assam, observe all-India protest day on 11 June to demand withdrawal of the Citizenship Amendment Bill. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which aims to provide citizenship to people forced to seek shelter in India because of religious persecution or fear of persecution in their home countries, has led to incidents of violence in the North-East. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

I am shocked beyond belief that something like this could be passed in any House of Parliament. It is the duty of every Indian to oppose it. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

It would mean a breach of the Assam Accord of 1985 where it was promised that those illegal migrants who entered India after 24 March 1971 will be detected and declared as foreigners. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

Every resident of the North-East, including the Hindus, are the ones who fear this. We are risking peace in the North-East and are being unjust to them. And to do this just to gain traction in one parliamentary election #ThisRepublicSaveNE

Northeast is burning and all insurgent groups have geared up to incite the indigenous people of the all seven states to reject the BJP and if needed take the route of violent movement. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

The violence in Assam is the result of communal polarisation being done by Narendra Modi and BJP #ThisRepublicSaveNE

The politics of hatred and communal polarisation is irreparably damaging our social fabric.
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Every Indian regardless of their race/gender/ethnicity/language/religion, deserves liberty of all forms including civil,economic,political & social rights. Prejudice always ponders on the person judging not the person being judged.
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This kind of religious violence is unbearable. India runs with unity in diversity not hatred.
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BJP knows that they will have losses in Assam because they have lost an alliance member. BJP’s main support in Assam are Bengalis. If Assam can be made their laboratory and they can ignite fire there, then you can get dividends in the rest of the country.
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Parts of Assam including the districts of Dibrugarh and Tinsukia witnessed violence when protestors pelted stones at moving vehicles, burnt tyres and blocked railway lines #ThisRepublicSaveNE

An exercise massive in scale, controversial in methodology and debatable on potential outcomes, the NRC update has divided Assam on religious and linguistic lines
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There are Continuos human rights violations happening in detention camps where the police is keeping anyone whom they find outsiders without having a concrete parameter to filter out.

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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Monitored by the Supreme Court, many consider the NRC as the holy grail of all efforts to resolve an issue that has brutalised Assam and structured its polity for years by the previous governments.

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“Never have I felt so helpless,” 79-year-old farmer At the fag end of my life, I am running from court to police station just to prove I am an Indian. I was born in this village, grew up here…how can a piece of paper determine my fate? Where will I go now?”
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Around 1,000 of these D-voters and foreigners are lodged in six detention camps in the state. Activists say the number of D-voters could be highly inflated as some names are repeated multiple times.

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These suspected people are served notice to prove their citizenship in the 100-odd FTs. The border police are allegedly given “targets” to meet every month.

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There are bigger questions. What will happen to those deemed ‘illegal’? They will have the option of appealing, but what if their final appeal is also turned down? Detention camps? Deportation?

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Hypothetically, after 25 years, citizenship will be demanded for these people. It’s a question of identity for the indigenous Assamese. We cannot live like second-class citizens in our own motherland,”

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The politics of hatred and division by BJP which is trying to polarise the NE region for their political gains, must be stopped. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

Hatred can never triumph love as India runs by brotherhood.
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यह देश केवल भाईचारों के नियम से चलता है!❤
hate,bigotry,anger&etc; से नहीं चल सकता है और न कभीं भविष्य मे चलेगा!
Love+Compassion+Unity+Integrity= A developed India.❤
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BJP has always tried to create a stir in places where there is peaceful atmosphere. All the border states have
been witness to such dirty tactics by the dividing party.
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By allowing immigrants from Bangladesh, based on their religion, BJP is trying to create a communal as well as demographic disturbance in the North-Eastern part of India. #ThisRepublicSaveNE

Only inclusive , not divisive politics , will keep us united .
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Dear citizens of Assam,
Don't be slaves of politicians. Your identity is being an Indian!
The term Indian is a philosophic idea that is beyond the essence Geographical demography. And unity in diversity is our ideology with compassion being our motto.
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