JAIPUR: A resolution against CAA, NRC, and NPR has been tabled in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly today and debate over the resolution is taking place. State Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shanti Dhariwal presented the resolution in the House and immediately the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) objected strongly and angry MLAs started shouting slogans in the well.

Once the resolution is passed, Rajasthan will become the first state in the country to enact a resolution against all three- CAA, NRC, and NPR collectively. Till now the proposal has been passed only against CAA in Kerala and Punjab Legislative Assembly.

It is written in the resolution that the CAA violates the basic spirit of the constitution.  It is feared by a large section of people in the country that the preamble of NPR and NRC is the same. Census work should be done only after the withdrawal of new provisions of NPR. 

Recent amendments made through the Citizenship Amendment Act differentiate people on religious grounds.  It is designed to deprive citizenship of India to a section of individuals.

Apart from this, the proposed additional information required from all the people living in the country is likely to cause great inconvenience to the population at large.  There will be no real benefit.  Assam state is a living example of this.  Therefore, with the withdrawal of the amendment of the CAA, the central government should also remove the apprehensions that have been sought in the NPR for the updates.  They should also be withdrawn.  Only after withdrawing the amendment to the NPR, census work should be taken up under it.

The resolution also says that there is a clear statement in the constitution that India is a secular country.  This is the basic feature of the Constitution and it cannot be changed. Along with this, Article 14 of the Constitution clearly makes it clear that no person in the territory of India will be deprived of equality before the law or equal protection of laws.  

The goal of the Citizenship Amendment Act-2019 i.e. CAA is to differentiate illegal immigrants on the basis of religion.  Such discrimination on the basis of religion is not in conformity with the iconic ideals of the Constitution and is in violation of Article 14 of the Constitution.

The resolution states that for the first time in the history of the country after independence, a law has been brought which differentiates people on the basis of religion and will put the country's secular fabric at risk.  

Apart from this, no provision has been made in the CAA regarding migrants from other neighboring Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan countries.  Critics have questioned why other countries were omitted. 

There have been several demonstrations against CAA -NRC  in Rajasthan but they have been totally peaceful.