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To determine nationhood from which citizenship flows on the basis of religion, the 299 would have said, is what the imposition in medieval times of the Jiziya did and which in modern times was to lead to the ideology of Two Nations that led to Partition. [...] If one were to go by the visible external accoutrements of religion on the persons of individuals and in places of work, in cars, on the surfaces of public transport with the backs of three-wheelers leading the way, the number of mosques and temples being built, one would say, it is undeniable that in the last fifty years or so, religious self-identification has become more pronounced than it used. [...] By the provisions of the CAA, that Frontier Gandhi, albeit a recipient of the Bharat Ratna, would be barred from the kindness of the citizenship of India. [...] The CCA’s legality and constitutionality being with the Supreme Court of India now, we must trust it to address these issues in the light of the laws and the Constitution of India. [...] At mid-point, while awarding a sentence of transportation for life to four out of twenty accused in a murder case, the Additional Sessions Judge in Meerut said in Court—as The Hindustan Times’ reporter present in court reported in a dispatch to his paper —that the Governor of the Province and 15 Gopalkrishna Gandhi the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court had asked judicial officers to subscr.