Ideas · 2026-08-25 · 55 min · 7,948 words

Why Gandhi's vision for an inclusive India never materialized

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What what's happening in India, what the government is doing, the CAA, the NRC, they go against the very fabric of the country. They go against what Gandhi fought for. On december twelfth, twenty nineteen. The government of India enacted the citizenship amendment act to go against what our forefathers fought. for the entire Indian nation fought for together against the British. back in forty seven uh and it's it's the secular fabric.

The act was criticized for being discriminatory. Especially for targeting muslims. It's what is laid in our constitution in the preamble that we are socialist sovereign Secular Republic. Protests then began in northeastern India.

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