Against the bill

Zakia Soman, co-founder, Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA)

The women members of Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), which is a pan-India body, say the Parliament needs to categorically reject the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB). This Bill divides citizens on the grounds of religion, which is antithetical to the idea of India as envisaged by our founders and articulated through the Constitution. Victims of persecution should be given protection, support or citizenship, or all of the three. Here, instead we see further discrimination!