By:- Omkar Dattatray
The NRC implementation is necessary to identify and deport the infiltrators. The national register of citizens is an ambitious project and it should be implemented in letter and spirit. The anti CAA protests and loss of lives and property should not be the reasons for holding back the much needed NRC. Instead the central government should go on with its programme of launching and then the implementation of the NRC. There is great and urgent need for the enumeration of NRC data all over the country .It is important to identify the infiltrators who have infiltrated into India and are working to destabilise our country and therefore their detection is necessary along with their ouster from the country. Their detection and deportation is absolutely necessary to arrest the growing demographic imbalance in the country. In fact the identification and then the deportation of the illegal immigrants is necessary not only for curbing the demographic change which is in the offing but also for arresting the threat to national security .This exercise has become necessary because some states are overflowing with the outsiders and they are collaborating with the anti-nationals. But it seems that the central government is now not serious on this important issue because of the opposition of some political parties who have used the Muslim minorities for this purpose. All this is going in the country due to the unfortunate vote bank politics. But the fact is that this should not have happened. We are the believers in the one world family and have given shelter to many foreigners and we also believe that the gusts are the gods. However that does not mean that India is a Dharamshalla to house all foreigners without any distinction. There is a big conspiracy to change the demographic profile of India and the anti national forces are at it and so it is all the more necessary to arrest the growing trend of the infiltration. There is no doubt that this big task will be resisted by those who will have to leave the country but the government should go with its decision of deporting of the infiltrators. As of now the government seems to be on the back foot on the implementation of the NRC because of the anti CAA violence which the country has seen thanks to the support to the anti-CAA protests by the congress, SP, Leftists and others. The anti CAA protests have taken a heavy toll of human life and the loss to private and government property was very big and thus the government is taking steps with care and caution. The government should not abandon its programme of the NRC launching and implementation as these is very important for the security and demography of the country. The way population of the minorities in India is growing is a cause of concern and the minorities with the support of the infiltrators will pose a big threat to the national unity and cohesion. The launching and implementation of the NRC is a herculean task and a very challenging task and the authorities will have to face stiff opposition from the political parties and the country's minorities. But the government should show its resolve and detect the illegal immigrants from the soil of India so that the threat to national peace and progress is arrested and a peaceful India is ensured and the foreign powers are defeated. Thus for peace ,security and above all for the curbing of the demographic change, it is very important to launch and implement the ambitious plan of the NRC so that India is saved from the bomb of demographic change and the security of the nation is also ensured. Implementation of the NRC was the agenda item in the manifesto of the BJP and they and their government should go ahead with its much talked about programme of the identification and deportation of the infiltrators. Any way the government should wait and watch and then boldly take the important decision of the detention and deportation of the illegal foreigners and this will be in the interest of the nation.
(The writer is retired education officer and columnist)
