Grave Threat From Illegal Immigrants

[Bharatvarsh2]

20 million to be made legal citizens



R Vaidyanathan



Last Updated : 28 May 2010 12:03:48 AM IST



Arizona in the USA is in turmoil due to a piece of legislation passed in the

state about illegal immigrants mainly from Mexico and other Latin countries.

It says that the cops can ask for papers if they suspect a person to be

illegal and also the employers need to check the legal status. The bleeding

heart liberals and other assorted types of leftists are up in arms. But the

mainstream America wants to go ahead and curb illegal immigration.



But India is different. It carries the Athithi Devo Bhava to the extreme in

terms of providing perfume to Kasab.



The facts first. Census is a statutory exercise conducted under the

provisions of the census Act, 1948 and rules made thereunder. The National

Population Register (NPR) is being created under the provision of

citizenship Acts and rules. It has been claimed by the Government (home

minister in Parliament) that the present census collects information for the

later preparation of National Population Register (NPR). To be precise,

there is only a Population register under Citizenship rules (2003) and it

also mentions about a National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC). The

difference is obvious and unfortunately mixed up by the government. The

census information by definition is confidential in terms of specifics and

so there is no way the information collected can be used to verify

nationality later.



The citizenship rules direct that 'during the verification process

"particulars of such individuals whose citizenship is doubtful shall be

entered with appropriate remarks in the population register." The current

census enumerator is to fill the query number 11 about nationality by asking

the person enumerated. It specifically mentions that "Please record the

nationality of the respondent as declared by him/her for each of the person

enumerated. Do not get into any argument with the respondent regarding

this." [Para 5.21.1 of General Instructions]. This is the Weapon of Mass

Destruction (WMD) smuggled into the census structure to facilitate crores of

illegal immigrants to be converted into a votebank through citizenship. When

the citizenship rules ask for doubtful cases of citizenship to be identified

and recorded, the census manual to collect information under the very

citizenship rules says "do not doubt the respondent; just record what he

says". Incidentally, anyone who has entered India six months prior to census

(Kasab is eligible under this category!) and if anyone intends to stay for

six months after becomes "usual resident" under the census rules, and they

can declare them as Indian citizens. Not only that, the government is

planning to issue "National Identity cards" to these people though the cards

are meant only for Indian citizens.



In a nutshell, India is going to make more than 20 million (estimated by

previous home ministers) illegal immigrants (mostly from Bangladesh) as

Indian citizens within a few months. By this subterfuge India will be the

only country in the world which not only welcomes illegal immigrants but

also confers citizenship and national identity cards to them.



We have seen how the Election Commission has been made ineffective and

subservient to the government of the day. We have seen how CBI has been

misused to fulfill the whims and fancies of the government of the day.



We have seen how the political parties are eager to get votes under any

circumstances and more eager to create vote banks.



We are now seeing the most important authority of our republic, namely, the

census commission used for political purposes to confer citizenship on

illegal immigrants in a most blatant show of misuse of power.



We have the case of Subba from Assam who became a member of parliament when

he is not a citizen of India. We have porous borders and corrupt officials.

These two constitute a deadly combination for disaster. But our government

by a sleight of hand has decided to subvert the last remaining independent

authority, namely, the Census Commission by combining the socalled National

Population Register and census count, and by introducing this dangerous

clause on citizenship in an innocuous way.



The end result will be millions of illegal immigrants will become citizens

of this country and millions more will be interested and encouraged to enter

India. Already a section of intelligentsia in Bangladesh believes that India

is "Lebensraum" _ adequate room for life or development.



Already we find that large parts of West Bengal, Assam and Bihar and parts

of UP are populated by illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. The correct

procedure would be to identify them and deport them at best and at worst

give them work permits or guest worker status, and not voting rights or

citizenship rights.



But we are going to do something lower than the worst. Provide them

citizenship rights. It is high time that nationalist oriented Indians

protested this and forced the government to cancel the citizenship tamasha

and conduct only a census for now.



Since this will confer voting rights on millions and a huge constituency for

some political parties; they will welcome it. But they should realise that

the Frankenstein monster we are creating will devour them sooner than later.

Sooner than later there will be a clamour for reservation in parliament to

"atithi or guest citizens".



A cabinet with Kasab, Headley and Sivarasan will be the most tragic part of

the Indian republic.



But our media will still be debating whether sari clad Deepika Padukone was

more charming than the Aishwarya dressed in gown in Cannes, and our

political leaders will continue to look for avenues to make money by

corruption and try to find tax havens to store them.



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