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Updated: Jan 08, 2020 02:10 IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Jan 8 (ANI): Economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen said he was "appalled" by the violence on
the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and blamed the administration for failing to stop the attacks in time."I am appalled that
communication between the administration and the police would be so delayed that ill-treatment of students could go on for quite some time
without being prevented by forces of law and order
That the establishment of the university cannot prevent outsiders from coming in and creating such bloody violence within the campus," Sen
told reporters after attending an award show organised by Infosys in Bengaluru.Sen also said that the Supreme Court should turn down the
Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) upon being questioned on the anti-CAA protests being held by students at many places across the country
"The student community has a great many issues to think about
But the CAA in my judgment should really be turned down by the Supreme Court on the grounds of being unconstitutional
You cannot have certain types of fundamental rights of human beings, in this case, connected with citizenship, be related with religious
differences rather than the things that really matter such as where you were born, and what the citizenship laws require you to do," Sen
said.He further argued for a better process of granting citizenship under which mistreated communities barring none would be able to apply
and get Indian citizenship."If you read the large volume of the constituent assembly records, you see that using religion for the purpose of
discrimination of this kind will be regarded as not acceptable
Similar things should be treated similarly, now if a Hindu has been treated badly in some country, say Pakistan, then yes they need sympathy
Similarly, if a Muslim is treated badly in Pakistan then that should also be taken into account
It has to be independent of religion but take cognizance of the suffering and other various reasons
Citizenship should be granted on a fair basis not on the basis of communal discrimination against one religion," the economist said
