All nations across the world have tough and strict laws pertaining to citizenship. It is time India did too, says KUMAR CHELLAPPAN
It took more than seven decades for the Government of India to launch a mission to take on the threat posed by illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The guests who reached India from East Pakistan (since 1971 known as Bangladesh) were armed with a purpose. They were tools used by anti-India forces to create subversion and counter-subversion in India, making use of the lacunae available in the country's legal system of staying in India as authorised Indians.
Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, (lawyer and politician who later served as President of India from 1974 to 1977), played a major role in promoting the illegal influx of Muslims from East Pakistan to Assam with an eye on converting the State into a Muslim majority region. Ahmed, who was the Minister of Finance, Law and Local Self-government of Assam during 1957 to 1962, successfully sabotaged the then Assam Chief Minister BP Chaliha's Prevention of Infiltrators Plan.
Perumbavoor, a small town in Kerala from where this article is written on March 20, 2024, has a population of more than 1.5 lakh illegal Bangladeshi immigrants. These workers possess Aadhar cards and other relevant citizenship papers. If you ask them about their village, they all say they are from Murshidabad in Bengal. There are more than 900 plywood factories in the suburbs of Perumbavoor, each employing nearly 150 workers. Most of these workers (popularly known as Bhais) claim they are from Bengal, Assam and Tripura. Interestingly, they belong to the Muslim community. During the Covid pandemic, the Kerala Government provided all facilities in the residential camps where these workers (designated by the State Government as Guest Workers) were put up and this was the major reason behind the CPI(M) sweeping the 2021 Assembly elections.
The situation is similar in various districts of Kerala as well as in Tamil Nadu. Although most of the culprits arrested by the police in connection with law and order issues (including murder, rape, kidnapping and dacoity) belong to this set of migrant workers, liberals and Marxists label them as "isolated incidents".
In January 2020 Kerala came to a grinding halt as the entire Muslim community was paraded by religious heads under the pretext of opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) enacted in Parliament to regulate citizenship laws in the country. The last week of February 2020 saw Delhi burning with a group of committed perpetrators spreading false rumours that five students of Jamila Millia Islamia were shot dead by the police. This had its ramifications in Kerala. The State awoke to the chanting of slogans like "Tera Mera Rishta Kya, La Ilaha Ill Allah", "Alla Hu Akbar", "Hindutva Ki Kabar Khudegi", "Hinduon Se Azadi", and "Jinnah Wali Azadi". Though the news about the killings of the students by Delhi Police was found out to be false, the damage was done.
Muslims in India, the educated as well as the uninitiated, were made to believe that the present regime at the Centre will ask for their documents and in case they fail to furnish the required papers, they would be either deported or put in detention centres.
The riots were an attempt to sabotage an important legislation enacted by Parliament to grant citizenship to Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians and Jains who had to leave Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh to escape religious persecution from rulers in their respective countries. The grievance of Islamic leaders in India was that the law discriminated against the Muslim community and should be cancelled. PK Kunhalikutty, leader of the Muslim League declared that once the INDIA Bloc assumes power in New Delhi, they would throw the CAA into the Arabian Sea. The Muslim Youth League has already demanded a separate Malabar State.
The male dominated Muslim community is against the Uniform Civil Code which they term as unconstitutional. The Islamists in India were totally against the law banning Triple Talaq. One is reminded of the words of Augustus Comte, the 19th century French philosopher who said "Demography is Destiny". The Islamist invaders came to India to plunder and loot the temples by the might of their sword. Despite the country succumbing to the power of the Islamist plunderers, they could not convert the believers of the Sanatana Dharma into Islam though there were Hindu genocides in various parts of India. The 1920 Mappila Rebellion in which thousands of Hindus were massacred in Kerala's Malappuram and Kozhikode regions was just one proof of their evil designs.
The religious demography of the country during the last 100 years is sufficient to prove how immaculately the Mullahs and Moulavis work round the clock to speed up the process of India's Islamisation, drawn out in detail in the book Religious Demography of India a comprehensive research work by AP Joshi, MD Srinivas and JK Bajaj of the Centre for Policy Studies. The study has some startling information. Kerala had a population of 6.4 million in 1901 out of which Hindus were 68.9 per cent, Muslims constituted 17.28 per cent while the Christians formed 13.8 per cent. By 1991, the total population of the State stood at 2.9 crore out of which the Hindus constituted 57.35 per cent, Muslims formed 23.33 per cent and Christian population was 19.32 per cent.
From 2001 to 2011, Muslims in Kerala have grown by 12.8 percent, while Hindus have grown by 2.2 and Christians by 1.4 percent. Such is the yawning and persistent gap between the Muslims and the others, write Bajaj, Joshi and Srinivas.
The census operation of 2021 is yet to be launched as the Covid-19 pandemic played spoilsport. By the time the results of census 2021 would be known the Muslim community would have crossed the threshold of the "critical mass", a term used in nuclear reactors to indicate the amount of fuel needed for setting the fission process to generate power.
"The most remarkable feature of the Religion Data of Census 2011 for Kerala is the extraordinarily wide gap between the growth of Muslims and others. During 2001-11, Hindus and Christians have recorded decadal growth of 2.23 and 1.38 percent respectively, while the Muslims have grown by 12.84 percent. The growth of Muslims has thus been nearly six times that of Hindus and more than nine times that of Christians," says the research work. The situation is no different in other States.
The share of Muslim population in India now is above their share before Partition. Because of the forced migration of populations between Pakistan and India at the time of Partition, the number of Muslims in remaining India had declined by nearly 5 million, from 42.6 million in 1941 to 37.7 million in 1951, and their share in the population declined from 13.38 to 10.45 percent. This decline has been more than made up in the six decades since Partition; in 2001, the share of Muslims in India's was already above their share in 1941 and it has risen to 14.23 per cent in 2011. This is information which could give sleepless nights to many Indian citizens.
It is here that illegal immigration, Love Jihad and forced religious conversions play a major role. Much has been written about illegal immigration and forced religious conversions while Love Jihad remains a topic of controversy. Remember Akhila, daughter of CPI(M) activist Asokan of Kottayam in Kerala? She eloped with Shafin Jehan, a Muslim youth and got married after conversion with the name Hadiya. Two years and three children later, Shafin Jehan threw her out of his house. She then got remarried to another Muslim youth. Hadiya has three more children by the second marriage and all these kids would be deployed as Jihadis to spread the word of Mohammed.
The large public meetings organised by the Islamic outfits and the CPI(M) across Kerala to express their solidarity with Hamas will always remain a blot on the face of India. The organisers got Hamas leaders to address public meetings.
The report on the Delhi Riots 2020 prepared by Monika Arora, Sonali Chitalkar and Prerana Malhotra would have disappeared from public domain because of a major conspiracy. Although an international publishing company had come forward to publish the book, a research work by a Group of Intellectuals and Academicians (GIA) who studied the 2020 Delhi Riots threadbare, at the eleventh hour the UK headquartered publishers retreated. Garud, an Indian company took up the challenge of publishing this work and that is how we have Delhi Riots 2020: The Untold Story. Do remember, there are people and outfits across the world who do not want the secret of the Islamists' plot to keep proselytisation an ongoing process for them to strike at will.
The beating up of Mukesh, a shopkeeper in Bangalore for daring to listen to Hanuman Chalisa at the time of Namaz or the unofficial shut down of eateries ordered by zealots in Kerala during the period of fast are all signs of their mission to attack the core of Sanatana Dharma.
The Communists oppose the CAA because that never accepted the concept of India. "They do have ideological solidarity with the communists of the world, whatever their nationality. Loyalty to the Communist ideology came before loyalty to the nation of which the communist was a citizen," writes late B Raman in his book Intelligence-Past, Present and Future.
The CAA is a prime key to India's national security concerns. All nations across the world have tough and strict laws pertaining to citizenship. It is time India did too.
