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Imagine, for a moment, you're in an ocean, travelling in a boat.
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You're travelling in a boat, alright?
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Suddenly, you hear a scream
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When you turn around to look, you see two people in the ocean
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They're swimming and signal towards you to help
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You turn your boat towards them
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They scream and tell you to save them as their boat had capsized
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Take us back to our homes!
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You turn around and look at your boat and wonder if there is space to save both of them
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And you realize that there is enough space for at least 5 people, so it would be easy to save both of them
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So what will you do?
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Obviously, you are going to save them both. It makes no sense to not save them
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But if I tell you that one out of the two people is a Hindu and the other is a Muslim
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Would you still save them both?
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I feel like majority of you would say that you would obviously still save them both
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When there is space to save them both, why look at faith?
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Two people are dying, (they're) drowning. And the matter is about rescuing them. So you'd take both of them in
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But what if I tell you
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You, who's rowing the boat, decides to save only the Hindu person because you yourself are a Hindu
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And leave the Muslim stranded
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You tell the Muslim to wait
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Actually, the ocean is very vast
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There'd be atleast 50-60 boats like these in the ocean that are being rowed by a Muslim
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So, they'd come and save you. I will not save you.
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He is going to look at you and ask you the logic behind this
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Save me when you have the opportunity. How long should I wait for and whom should I wait for?
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Is faith really a matter to be considered here?
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The metaphor that I just told you summarizes the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019
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which was recently passed in the Lok Sabha
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This bill states that if any person is from the Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain or Parsi or Christian community,
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who has come from Afghanistan, Pakistan or Bangladesh on or before December 31st, 2014
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and is resident in India today
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They would no longer remain illegal immigrants, they would now be granted citizenship
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In order to justify this, Amit Shah says that
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this bill basically protects the persecuted minorities of these countries
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Because all these faiths mentioned in the bill
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these are basically the faiths that are attacked a lot,
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and are discriminated against in these three countries- Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh
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Therefore, we are providing them an escape route through this bill
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We are inviting them to India and providing them security and a better future
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It might seem logical to hear, in a sense, because
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There have been cases in Bangladesh where Hindus or other minorities have been attacked
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But this argument quickly loses merit
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when you see that there are many more persecuted minorities in these three countries
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which need help, which are facing discrimination and which are not mentioned in this bill
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for example, Ahmedis and Shias in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh
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They are generally referred to as Muslims,so to speak,
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but the other Muslims in Pakistan don't consider these sects and communities as Muslims
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So they have to face a lot of discrimination
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Atheists also have to face a lot of discrimination in Islamic countries
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There are attacks and hate crimes against them
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But there are no provisions for these persecuted minorities in this bill
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So this bill is selectively protecting some minorities and communities
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and it is ignoring some
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In order to counter this, a lot of people say that there are more than 50 Islamic countries in this world
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If the Shias and Ahmedis are facing any discrimination,
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so they should go to one of these more than 50 Islamic countries- that's not our problem
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Because since they are Muslim and if there is a discrimination amongst them,
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then there a lot of Islamic countries to invite them
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But this logic is the same as the boat logic that I gave you
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that two people are drowning in the ocean
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but you leave the Muslim stranded saying that there are other boats out there, they might come to save you
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We don't want to meddle in this. We just want to save our Hindu (companion) and leave
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There are a lot of problems in this logic
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First: What about the atheists? The ones who do not comply with any faith, where would they go?
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Secondly, if we start discriminating amongst people taking religion into consideration
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then India cannot be called a secular country
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And if this happens, then the international reputation of India is going to fall and get ruined
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India's international reputation is going to fall down to the level of Pakistan
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that is, the country that defines itself on the basis of religion
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Look, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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Now some people here would say that we want such a state! We want India to become a Hindu Rashtra
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All I would like to say to such people, is have you looked at the condition of these countries?
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All the countries across the world that define themselves on the basis of religion
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that,for them, religion is at the top in the Constitution
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What is the condition of such countries?
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They are the lowest ranked countries in terms of development
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Look at all the top most developed countries across the world
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(for example) the European countries, USA, Japan, Australia, Singapore- all of these countries are secular
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And then look at the lowest ranked countries of the world- where a lot of fights ensue
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(they are ) the most under developed countries
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There are faith related fights for sure there
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See for yourself, if you want to make a nation on the tenets of a religion,
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then our country too, would stoop to those levels and become like them
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but if you want your country to scale heights, then we need to remain secular
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And it is not me saying this, this was known to our freedom fighters too.
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Look at all the real freedom fighters of our country
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Subash Chandra Bose, Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel, Shaheed Bhagat Singh
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Baba Saheb Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi- not even one of them wanted India to become a Hindu Rashtra
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All of them were secular
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They wanted to give equal treatment to the Hindus and the Muslims
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On the other hand, who were the people who wanted a partition of the country
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into a Muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India?
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On one hand there was the Muslim League which included Jinnah
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and on the other hand was the Hindu Mahasabha that wanted a Hindu Rashtra,
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which included people like Godse and Savarkar
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So if you support the Citizenship Amendment Bill, then you are basically supporting the two nation theory
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which was suggested by Jinnah
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that Hindus and Muslims cannot live together and they need to be given a separate state
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The two nation theory that was rejected by almost every Indian freedom fighter
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They did not accept it as a theory and believed that they could indeed live together and prove it
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On the other hand, there are protests on a massive scale in Assam, Tripura and other north eastern states
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against this bill
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Protesters claim that this bill basically encourages illegal immigration
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It promotes illegal immigration
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Because if you start distributing citizenship like this today,
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Then tomorrow, people would cross borders and come in larger numbers
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They'd see that they are being granted citizenship for free, let us also take it
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What this would basically do is put more stress on the country's resources
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especially the north eastern states that have already been under so much stress historically
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When Bangladesh got independent, there was a huge influx of refugees into these north eastern states
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and it had been extremely difficult to accommodate them
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because when people come in, in such huge numbers then it is very difficult to look after them
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Especially when the country is unable to look after its own citizens properly
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The poverty and unemployment of its own citizens in this country has been rising
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People do not have jobs and the economy has crashed
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What are we going to do by calling them here?
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You come! You come too! Let us all fry fritters together!
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What else is left to do?
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In wake of the rising protests in Assam and the rest of the north eastern states,
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the government has shut down the internet in a slot of places
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Curfew has been imposed
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News has been trickling in that a lot of the army is being moved from Kashmir to Assam
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in order to control the people
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Such "good" days are being witnesses- people's voices are being stifled
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and the Indian Army, which should be used to protect us against foreign intruders and terrorists,
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The Indian Army is being used against its own citizens in different places
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Furthermore, this bill is a huge threat to our national security
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Our intelligence agency, RAW had expressed the same concerns
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Since illegal immigration would become easier due to this bill,
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anyone could just request for citizenship by producing an affidavit, declaring he is a Hindu
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and he would be granted citizenship very easily
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What this would do is enable infiltrators and terrorists to get inside the country very easily
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by pretending to be Hindu and this could pose a huge threat to the country
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Not only is this bill against the founding principles of our country, it is also a threat for the north eastern states
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and it could also become a huge threat for the national security
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So now you'd ask why is the government so determined to bring in this bill when it is so terrible?
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Whatever superficial reasons they have provided to bring in the bill
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I have already countered all of them in this video
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What could be the real reason behind this?
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Now I would like to tell you what, in my opinion, is the real reason behind bringing in this bill
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Listen carefully, this is my opinion
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Some people get irked upon hearing my opinions
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So I'd like to tell them that they can close the video here- they may leave
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But now I am going to tell you what my opinion is
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In my opinion, the real reason behind this bill is that the BJP wants to hit multiple targets with a single arrow
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Their first target is to distract the people from the real issues by bringing in this bill
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for example, economy, GDP growth rate, unemployment
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A distraction needs to be created to prevent the attention of people from being attracted to these issues
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All the Hindu Muslim issues had been closed when the Supreme court had pronounced the verdict on the Ram Mandir
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We could have put a "the end" to the Hindu Muslim issues
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But the BJP thought that if this happens, then the people's attention would move to these real issues
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We need to raise another Hindu- Muslim issue in order to distract the people
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So let us table a bill in which we'd intentionally put in Hindu Muslim and differentiate amongst them
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We are going to play divide and rule so that the people get flared up, start debating
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the people start fighting and the people get distracted
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Instead of mentioning the faiths one by one, it could have easily said "persecuted minorities" in this bill
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With that one minor change, half of the country would not have had a problem with this bill
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But they did not do that. They deliberately, intentionally, mentioned the names of the faiths
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so that a divide is created amongst people
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Their second target is communalizing the people- divide the Hindus and Muslims
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You do remember the divide and rule policy, right? It has been ongoing since the time of the British
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If you pit the people against one another over something, then you can easily rule over them
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The third target is that BJP is trying to create a vote bank of refugees and illegal immigrants
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by providing them with citizenship, they'd be granted a voter id card
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and then they'd tell them look we granted you all of this including citizenship , now vote for us
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More people would cross borders, all of them would be granted citizenship
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all of them would vote for the BJP-
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because they're getting more opportunities to cross the border and getting citizenship
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Actually, at one time, the BJP used to accuse Mamta Bannerjee for the same reason
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That Mamta Bannerjee calls in the Bangladeshis, distributes voter id cards to them
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so that they vote for her party
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and today the BJP is doing the same thing that the Mamta Bannerjee was accused of
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The fourth target is by combining the nationwide NRC with the citizenship bill
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they want to create such a dangerous weapon
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with which they can give citizenship to whomsoever they want and deny it to whomsoever they want
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They want to divide and rule on such a huge scale
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In my opinion, you can call it partition 2.0
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They are trying to partition the country again
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So that in order to cover up their mistakes and put the blame on someone else
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I would analyze what the nationwide consequences of NRC would be in a future video
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That's all for today
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