[Marxistindia] Modi's Delhi Speech: A Bundle of Untruths

[news from the cpi(m)]

December 23, 2019
 
Press Statement
 
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:
 
Modi's Delhi Speech: A Bundle of Untruths
 
Clearly rattled by the intensity of popular protests across the country
against the CAA/NRC/NPR and the declaration by at least ten Chief Ministers
that they will not implement the NRC, PM Modi unleashed yesterday at Delhi a
bundle of untruths aimed at misleading the people.
 
Lie No. 1: He said: "I want to tell the 130 crore citizens of India that
since my government has come to power, since 2014, there has been no
discussion on NRC anywhere.."
 
*        BJP's 2019 election manifesto promised the NRC all over the
country.  
*        Home Minister Amit Shah, during the debate on CAB in the Lok Sabha
on November 9, said, "We will bring the NRC across the country. Not a single
infiltrator will be spared."
*        The NRC process is to begin with the compilation of the National
Population Register from April 1 to September 30, 2020. The NPR is the first
stage of NRC.  The gazette notification for this was issued on July 31,
2019.
 
Lie No. 2: Modi said: "There are no detention centres anywhere".
 
*        Minister of State for Home Affairs answered a question in the Rajya
Sabha on December 11 and said that instructions have been issued to all
states for setting up detention centres to detain illegal migrants or
convicted foreigners pending deportation. The Central government on 9.1.2019
sent consolidated instructions for the construction of detention centres to
all state/union administrators.  
*        Central government told the Karnataka High Court on November 28,
"We have written to all state governments in 2014 and follow-up letter in
2018 to have detention centres to house foreign nationals illegally staying
in India".  
*        In November 2019, Minister of State for Home Affairs replied to a
question in the Rajya Sabha that 28 people have died in Assam's detention
camps where suspected immigrants are confined. He disclosed that 988
"foreigners" were lodged in six detention centres in Assam.
*        The Ministry of Home Affairs sent instructions on 24/29 April 2014
and again on 9-10 September 2014. On this basis, a model detention
centre/holding centre/camp manual was issued to all states/union territories
in 2018.
*        Many BJP state governments like Karnataka have already directed
construction of detention centres.  
 
Lie No. 3: Modi said: "I never asked for anyone's religion".
 
*        In a recent election rally in Dumka, Jharkhand, Modi said that
those  indulging in violence can be identified by their clothes.  
*        During the 2019 general elections, Modi said that Rahul Gandhi has
chosen to contest from Wayanad, Kerala "a seat where the majority is in
minority".
 
Through such a bunch of lies, Modi seeks to mislead the people over their
assault on the secular-democratic content of the Indian Constitution.
 
During his 90 minute long speech, Modi did not mention even once the growing
miseries that his government and policies are imposing on people's
day-to-day life. The economy is in a virtual recession, unemployment is
highest in half a century. Distress suicides by farmers growing, inflation
eating into the people's lifes - people have stopped eating onions due to
its exorbitant price.  Clearly, Modi government's only agenda is to sharpen
communal polarization and divide our people through the spread of hate and
violence.
 
The protests against the CAA/NRC/NPR will continue until an official
notification is issued  to stop the ongoing process.
 
 
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