Violence and turmoil of the kind India witnessed at recent demonstrations against the amended Citizenship Act (CAA) is liable to hurt crucial foreign investment in India, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev says.
In an interview on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's Davos summit, Sadhguru asked, "Who will invest their money in a place where buses are burning on the street?"
Davos attendees, he said, are "excited about India's possibilities", but also want to know if the civil unrest is under control, he added.
Opponents of the new law feel it deliberately excludes Muslims while offering fast-track citizenship for Pakistani, Afghan and Bangladeshi illegal immigrants from six minority religious groups, including Hindus -- provided they entered India on or before December 31, 2014.
"It's not nothing to do with the Constitution of India as it applies to Indians. This has got something to do with people who are left behind during...Partition," he said.
"They stayed back, thinking they can live well there also," he said. "Nobody really understood that these two nations will become so separate."
Demonstrators are also taking exception to the idea of a countrywide citizens register, described by one senior opposition leader as the "Siamese twin" of the citizenship law, contributing to a "net effect" of excluding Muslims.
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The government initially said the National Register of Citizens would be implemented countrywide, but later backtracked and said no discussions had taken place on such a policy.
Sadhguru nodded that apprehensions were partly fuelled by government ministers drawing links between the citizenship law and the NRC. "Some people gloated about it," he said, adding that even they "did not understand what the policy is about, what the law is about."