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CAA NRC Protests 2019 - One Year On

In December 2019, hundreds of thousands of people in cities across India, and abroad, joined in protest against the recently passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). The law creates a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented residents who have fled religious persecution, but it discriminates against refugees and immigrants who happen to be Muslim—members of India’s largest minority. The anti-CAA movement, as it became known, was India’s most sustained people’s movement since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014. The widespread protests were abruptly cut short by the COVID19 pandemic. The size of the protests caught Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government by surprise. Like the ongoing protests led by Sikh farmers against new agricultural laws, the anti-CAA movement was branded by the ruling party as “anti-national.” But while the Modi government is now negotiating with the farmers to end their blockade of Delhi’s borders, the anti-CAA movement was never accorded any political legitimacy. One year on, the anti-CAA movement has receded into the background, its anniversary barely remembered. However, the movement brought several people and groups from the across the world together as ideological allies against this discriminatory law. The formation of our human rights advocacy group, The Humanism Project, was the culmination of the spontaneous anti-CAA protests in Australia. Here is a personal story, from December 2019, of one of our members.