How the NPR-NRC Would Operate? A Reasoned Speculation

[Sukla Sen]

A very likely scenario:

I. At the NPR/Census stage, no paper will be asked for.
(Though one'll have to refer to in order to provide the Aadhaar no., details of passport/driving licence etc.)

II. Based on info collected, and not collected(for whatever reasons), the list of "doubtful citizens" wil be prepared.

III. Those on this "list" will have to "prove" their "citizenship" before the concerned authorities to their "satisfaction".
It's, as of now, entirely up to the concerned officials what'd constitute an "adequate proof" and what would not.
One should not expect even a semblance of any uniformity.
It'd be all "discretion", unless (through court directive or) otherwise forced.

IV. Under that scenario, individual boycott is just no option.
It'd straightaway send one to the "doubtful list" and the nightmare that is to follow.
However, "boycott" by very high-profile individuals could be quite helpful.

V. The only option is to try to ensure that the NPR-Census does not at all take place over considerably large patches of area.

VI. As long as the census operation is not explicitly disentangled from the NPR, it has also got to be similarly opposed.

(The merging of the two, apparently, runs counter to the Section 15 of the Census Act, 1948.)

VII. The CAA is not not expected to make any meaningful difference, outside of the Northeast and, also, West Bengal - if at all.
(For,in order to take advantage of the CAA, one'll have to establish one's claim of arrival from one of the three listed countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh or Pakistan, on or beforeDecember 31st 2014.

How does one do that???
On top of that, those who'd be filtered out via the NRC would have had
already made a claim of being an Indian.
To make another claim, quite to the contrary, would make one liable to
be charged with perjury.)

VII. Those who'll, eventually, be unable to "prove" would turn "stateless", with all the consequences to follow.

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