‘I have concepts …’: Jaishankar handles United States, other CAA critics

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Saturday stated that it is essential to put the brand-new Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the context of the 1947 Partition which divided the Indian subcontinent into 2 independent countries India and Pakistan Responding to the criticism of CAA from the United States and other parts of the world, Jaishankar stated that there are a variety of examples in which nations have fast-tracked citizenship. Throughout an interaction at a media occasion, the foreign minister recommended critics to hold up a mirror to their own policies as he mentioned Jackson-Vanik change, which had to do with Jews from Soviet Union, the Lautenberg Amendment, Specter Amendment and “fast-tracking of Hungarians after the Hungarian transformation, fast-tracking of Cubans in 1960s”. “So, if you were to ask me, have other nations, other democracies, fast-tracked on the basis of ethnic culture, faith, social qualities, I can provide you any variety of examples,” the minister stated. “Look, I am not questioning the flaws or otherwise of their democracy or their concepts or absence of it. I am questioning their understanding of our history. If you hear remarks from lots of parts of the world, it is as if the Partition of India never ever occurred, there were no substantial issues which the CAA is expected to resolve.” If you take an issue and “eliminate all the historic context from it, sanitise it and make it into a political accuracy” argument, and state, ‘I have concepts and do not you have concepts’, “I have concepts too, and one of them is commitment to individuals who were let down at the time of Partition. And, I believe, the home minister spoke extremely eloquently on it the other day”, he included. “Now, if I were to likewise sa
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