Simultaneously, with the issue of notification on July 31, 2019, the MHA is learnt to have asked the States and Union Territories to set up more and more detention camps (equivalent to Hitler’s concentration camps) on the pattern of Assam detention camps based on the findings of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) to be prepared on the platform of NPR to accommodate illegal immigrants or intruders in such detention camps for their deportation to the countries of their origin or as by law authorized.

The notification follows pre-General Elections 2019 campaign rhetoric of muscular nationalism, politics of marginalization, politics of exclusion, politics of divisiveness and politics of majoritarian consolidation, all in the name of inclusive development, as also promises of BJP that NRC will be introduced across the country if they returned to power.

Proposed NRC read with the Citizens (Amendment) Bill has gripped the minorities and other weaker sections like Dalits with fear, insecurity and panic like situations, while raising social tensions and communal divide all over the country. It helps BJP consolidate majoritarian support for larger electoral gains. Simultaneously, such issues have oft repeated diversionary tactics of BJP to deflect public attention from critical issues like rising unemployment, recessionary economy, lay-offs in corporate sector, lack of private investments, growing agrarian distress facing the nation, ever increasing cost of living symptomatic of heightened social tension likely to disturb social cohesiveness and communal harmony.

Saner elements across the nation are out to calm down the bruised sentiments of the minorities and Dalits through social media and other platforms. At the same time, social media have created fear psychosis among the vulnerable people in view of continuing targeted violence against them as also growing hate crimes in the country. People are taking cue from Assam where the ongoing NRC has upset the social harmony, beleaguering over 40 lakh people declared illegal, facing foreigners’ tribunal and the higher judiciary of High Courts and the Supreme Court, in the process being fleeced and impoverished further.

Since the General Elections-2019, pundits all over the country have struggled to explain BJP’s upset win. Liberal columnists, women and men of goodwill and substance are united in shock that so many people voted for a party (BJP) which inflamed racial, ethnic and religious tensions, insulted and mistreated women, suppressed minorities, Dalits and was deemed unfit to govern a country of India’s size and its time-tested respect for diversity and mutual tolerance through the campaign of hatred, divisiveness and communal consolidation, jeopardizing the very idea of India.