Thread by @naukarshah

A disaster is looming on us. A government inflicted cruelty of unprecedented scale.

One from which we might not be able to recover for a long long time.

And we aren’t concerned. Or we aren’t concerned enough to say NO!

I am talking of anti-poor NRC & anti-Muslim CAB. #NoToNRC

In July, HM @AmitShah told RajyaSabha that Government will ensure that all illegal immigrants will be deported from 'every inch of the country's soil'.

What he did not say was that how will he determine who is an illegal immigrant!
m.economictimes.com/news/politics-…

Remember when @narendramodi announced that every last paisa of black money would be caught?

You cheered? Yes?

Demonetisation Disaster.

You never thought that 5000 Rs your mother saved would be what he meant by that?

You never thought you would be made to suffer!

Yet you did.

You know why?

Because this is a sadist & cruel Govt.

An utterly incompetent one at that, inflicting even more pain!

In this every single illegal immigrant will be weeded out of every single inch exercise, you will be first asked to prove your citizenship!

Yes. You!

#NoToNRC

So what, you ask?

We can do this much to support the govt to weed out those infiltrators.

Oh yes. You most definitely do!

How to be a part of this patriotic exercise?

Here the Govt will aid you with its never seen in 70 years kind of exemplary incompetence.

#NoToNRC

Bring your documents it says.

But simply being born in India or to Indian parents is not enough.

A true patriot should have documental proof that the parents are born before 1971.

What, you don’t have your parents documents!

Well, F*ck you! It is for the country!

#NoToNRC

Oh sorry. You are the rich.

Joke was on poor!

When they are unable to prove even their own existence, how will they prove with 50 year old documents that their grandparents were also Indian citizens.

#NoToNRC

The poor, the displaced, the marginalised, the migrants from rural areas, the landless, those in the slums & jhuggis, those affected by floods & other disasters, the women at the marital home...

They will be the ones unable to show these obscure documents.

#NoToNRC

And just like that 5000Rs your mother saved became the black money this Govt was after, post NRC, you will become the illegal immigrant, the infiltrator, stripped of your citizenship, at the mercy of the Govt, the officers and the clerks. Standing in lines perpetually.

#NoToNRC

You might be thinking by illegal immigrants this Govt means people jumping over the border fence, coming to loot your jobs & happiness.

You thought same for black money also.

By illegal immigrants, Govt means people without documents. Really old & difficult documents.

#NoToNRC

Oh, but being anti-poor isn’t enough.

What is the fun in all this mindless cruelty if it is not outright communal and anti-Muslim right?

That was the ingredient that DemoDisaster missed.

Cruelties ought to be communal right?

Voila. The Citizenship Amendment Bill.

#NoToCAB

To poor people without ancient documents, the merciful Government says, come to us you poor non-citizens.

Come, lie at our feet and we may grant you the citizenship again. Or not!

But what?

You are poor and a Muslim?

You, the infiltrator!

Detain & deport!

#SayNoToCAB

And like how that GST/Demo double whammy knocked our economy off, this NRC/CAB double whammy will knock whatever is left of our country off.

Poor non-Muslims without docs perpetually in lines.

Poor Muslims without docs in detention centres!

#NoToNRC #NoToCAB

A disaster is looming on us. A government inflicted cruelty of unprecedented scale.

One from which we might not be able to recover for a long long time.

And I have only this to ask.

Are we concerned?

Are we concerned enough to hit the streets & say NO to this cruelty?#NoToNRC