In a strongly worded disapproval to the Centre’s recent move to bring the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the National Population Register (NPR) and possibly a nationwide National Register of Citizens (NRC), former National Security Advisor (NSA) Shivshankar Menon on Friday said that through such moves India has only achieved “a hyphenated relation with Pakistan as a religiously driven and intolerant state”.
The former diplomat stated that by deciding to proceed with these exclusionary processes, “We have gifted our adversaries platforms to attack us”.
“When we assisted the formation of Bangladesh, the global opinion was on our side. What is happening now is quite another scenario. We are increasingly being isolated, we have no international support apart from a section of Indian diaspora and some extreme right MEPs [Members of the European Parliament].”
Menon also criticised the Narendra Modi government’s decision to cancel a meeting with a US Congressional delegation because it included the Indian-origin member Pramila Jayapal, who is opposed to India’s clampdown on Kashmir after Article 370 was diluted. “We had a chance to rebutting (her charges) but we chose to duck it.”
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