It is time Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi reins in Bharatiya
Janata Party president Amit Shah and his friends from vitiating the
process of updating the National Register of Citizens for Assam, which
aims to separate genuine Indian citizens from those the State defines as
“illegal immigrants”. Through their venomous speeches they have turned
the exercise into a tool for communal polarisation and terrorising
Indians outside the northeastern state in a bid to gain votes.
Justice
Gogoi has a reason to worry because he and Justice Rohinton F Nariman
have been supervising the updating exercise. Even though there have been
many claims of faulty exclusion from the National Register of Citizens,
the process has acquired credibility precisely because the Supreme
Court’s monitoring of it has been devoid of political motivations. [. . . ]
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