
Ep 152: The Citizenship Battles
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The Feasibility of the Constitutional Constraint Assembly
It was not at all inevitable that the secular broader vision pluralistic vision should have won out in the constraint assembly right which is why I was trying to emphasize that the people who are making these points are senior congressmen they are not people from the Hindu mass above or a small minority whom you can just relegate. Exactly so it's a dominant state of thinking. Very important strain and that is why these were the most contentious provisions Al-Jawar-Lalayru observed right but the point is that how are they able to persuade and win over this thing? The principle of citizenship by birth is the one that best captures this yes we recognize that those who left Pakistan shouldn't have an
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