The recently enacted controversial Citizenship Amendment Act has been fueling the agitations, uproars, and protests across the country that had brought the opposition parties and the people to the streets and on the other hand, the activists have been raging fierce condemnations against the Act and the scores of litigation have been tabled before the Supreme Court which unanimously challenge the passage of the biased act and in the twixt of having the aberrant and outrageous developments, we sat down with one of the renowned journalists and one of the strongest critics of the CAA Hindu N Ram to grasp his notion on the severity of the stirs and the handicapped amendment.

While questioned about Modi's avowal on the Act that it won't discriminate and affect the Muslims in India, Ram said that the enacted bill is absolutely against the Indian constitution and cited the citizenship as something beyond castes, religion, languages, sex, and creed. 

He recalled the judicial verdict of the S.R. Bommai case in 1994 where the final verdict had upheld that no amendment can modify or remove the secularism from the Indian constitution. He added that this is the first time in the history of Independent India that the government had proposed the amendment based on the religion.

When asked about what inaccuracy does the bill have in awarding the citizenship for the persecuted minorities in Islamic majority countries, the veteran journalist stated that the Indian government had rolled out the bill with its irrational decision by granting the citizenship only for the minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan and by reportedly ignoring the SAARC member countries. The Bill had excluded the minorities like Ahmadiyyas, Hazaras, Rohingya Muslims, Sri Lankan Hindus, Bhutanese Christians and questioned the government on mapping the religion as the only reason for the persecutions by leaving the ethnic and linguistic oppression.

He underlined the Article 14 of the constitution which guarantees 'Right to Equality' and asserted that the Act won't withstand and won't last for a long time if it would be challenged in the Supreme court by contenting the basic rights prescribed under Article 14 and while quizzed about the prevailing protests across India, he said that the Sri Lankan Tamil people were neglected by the Act and after knowing that this amendment didn't have any proper and legal grounds, the students and the Muslims are staging fierce protests against the Act and he further pointed out the international conventions and rulings of the United Nations Refugees agency which urges the countries to house the refugees of other countries who seek asylum and as per the International law, no county is vested with the right to throw the refugees out of its borders.

When we asked about the BJP's assertion that the party has a majority and it has been passing the legislation listed in 2019 election manifesto, Ram stated that the party has also made a poll promise of enhancing and transforming the lives of Indians and increase the employment rate in the country and underlined Modi's claim of prioritizing the developments and cited the report released by former Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian who exposed that the state of Indian economy is very critical. Ram accused the government of failing to concentrate on real-time issues and economic slowdown and he reiterated that the passage of the Citizenship Act signals the desperate ideology of BJP towards building a Hindutva country.