As CAA-NRC protests grow older, the newly emerging trends, seemingly, are adding to the dismay of the country’s current power holders. With the year coming to an end heralding the festive mood through X-mas and new year, it was presumed that these two issues will get eloped soon from the thought process of the masses. The reasons for this ‘big confidence’ can be understood. It stems out from the overwhelming election victory that has also acted in spreading of the ‘taken for granted’ culture in their rank and file. But that these are nothing but delusions are quite evident from the current eruptive days and nights the nation is passing through. From sporadic, protests have become ceaseless and from community-centric, as initially expected by the believers of bigotry, it’s now pan-nationally patriotic in feature with a spontaneous and ever-growing participation from all sections of common people, including those from non-Muslim faiths. And as death toll rises, with 15 as of now in Uttar Pradesh alone, the makers of controversial statements have started succumbing to their old habits. Their waywardly narratives justifying the deaths are only adding to the aggravation of the criticality of the situation. Much harm has been done and for averting a civil-war like situation gripping the nation, demand of the time is to rise to the occasion with an open mind to understand the ground realities and show faith to people’s sentiments, even if that means putting the ideological inclinations to back benches, at least for the time being.
It will be hard to comprehend why the ‘crusaders’ of both CAA and NRC are failing to feel the nation’s pulse, despite being the fact they are basically political people maintaining constant touches with the mass. With students and youths in forefront, protests are apolitical to the core without any organisational mechanism in background, and despite that, outreach and mass engagement  have been outstanding. The striking presence of spontaneity and the accompanying tricolour in most gatherings speaks louder than any commentary. People have buried their religious identities and with the sole identity as Indians, have taken the decision not to rest until their feelings are honoured. But, the regimented mindsets of the proponents of this ‘dual discomfort’ only seem to walk along the blind lanes of dogmas, halting the normal magnanimity expected under a situation of this sort.
If there is an amplification of the stubborn belief that CAA-NRC believers are all anti-national elements and bullets, lathis and mass arrests are solutions, the situation will only worsen further. The whole nation is awaiting a one-liner from the highest quarter- CAA will be abrogated and there will be no NRC. The sooner it arrives, the better it will be for the nation. 

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Kenter Joya Riba

(Managing Editor)
      She is a graduate in Science with post graduation in Sociology from University of Pune. She has been in the media industry for nearly a decade. Before turning to print business, she has been associated with radio and television.
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