It is good that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has in his speech at Ramlila Maidan Delhi on December 22 categorically declared that there was no discussion on a National Register of Citizens (NRC) so far and that what had been done in Assam alone was under the orders of the Supreme Court. This will be taken to mean that the recent statements of Home Minister Amit Shah in and out of Parliament about a country-wide NRC represented at best a loud thinking of the government for the future. The stand alone Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) getting linked to the projected…