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Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Impassion of the Congress Party

Jaspat Roy Kapoor called article seven the obnoxious clause and a lot of the literature refers to it as obnoxious clause quote unquote because you know that's how strongly they think. The congress party did not at any point say that we accept the division of India on the basis of the two nation theory what the congress party signs up to effectively is this the partition plan says that the legislatures of the state provinces of Punjab and Bengal will vote on whether the provinces should say united or should be separated. They would be a referendum in the north-west frontier province which even though it is a Muslim majority province was ruled by a congress government in the select district of Assam who will come to again

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