They are screwing with immigration and voter registrations in the middle of their COVID-19 response in India, just like us. This legislation increased voter registration by 15%, of mostly minority immigrant voters. Divide and conquer.
India’s new domicile law for Jammu & Kashmir is making residents anxious
India’s recent move to open up Jammu & Kashmir for settlement by outsiders is fuelling fears of another “Palestine in the making” among its Muslim majority residents.
The government of India issued a notification on April 1 changing the decades-old domicile law of the region. It now entitles anyone who has stayed in the region for 15 years to domicile status—10 for central government officials and their children and seven for high school students.
This change comes eight months after India revoked Article 370 of the constitution which granted the erstwhile state considerable autonomy within the country—an arrangement put in place at the time of its accession to India in 1947. In August 2019, India also bifurcated the state into two union territories: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh.
The new law has now become a source of deep anxiety for residents of the Muslim-majority region who fear it is geared to bring about a demographic change. Jammu & Kashmir, according to Census 2011, has 68.3% Muslim population, while Hindus constitute 30%, Sikhs 2%, and Buddhists, who mostly inhabit Ladakh, a little more than 1%.
https://qz.com/india/1834012/after-article-370-new-jammu-kashmir-domicile-law-fuels-anxiety/