CAA and opinion making failure?

Protests all across? Would explaining have helped??

Anti CAA protests are the order of the day, across the country, and these protests continue to be 'sustained in isolated pockets across - the focal points of the action being campuses, and specific constituencies wherein, people from a particular religion dominate in parts of that geography.

There is a clear pattern to these protests - the chunk of these seem to be fanned, with fear and baseless rumors as the foundation, that provokes people into action in the target protest geography.

Now to the question - did the center, and also the ruling party fail in communicating the essence of the "Citizens amendment act" to people at large, and more so, to the population that thinks it is vulnerable in the face of such a legislation.

On the face of it, it does appear that the central government, thanks to the huge mandate it won in 2019, when it rode back to power, went roughshod on pushing the bill in both houses of the parliament, and then, on passing it, making it a law swiftly, with the necessary presidential assent. For any commoner, that is how it looks like, and makes one think that better communication and proactive messaging etc, could have saved the wrath of these protests.

But, if you again look at the nature of these protests, and how these are being managed in pockets of student influence  and the preponderance of a said religious population, no amount of planning, and communication by the establishment would have avoided such a situation.

In any case, the campaign base of these protests is to cash in on the insecurities of the Muslim population, and make them feel vulnerable by such a law that has been pushed by the government. Those who use the said religion and its people for gross political gains, will any case fan the issue, and distort reality, and use the volatility for short term political or electoral gains.

With this being the ground reality, any amount of planning, or opinion making by the government or the ruling party, would have been of no avail, given the nature and the genesis of many such instances in the country.

May be, that's the reason the government, and its leadership, decided to pass the act, make it a law, and then face the aftermath, treating it as a law and order problem.

Do you feel that things would have been different if there was a huge PR exercise by the government in communicating the decision to bring in CAA, with attempts to convince the stakeholders?? Somehow, it does not look like things would have been any different by a splash of PR and opinion making in this issue.

(initially, I thought why did the government so miserably fail in communicating the issue to the target audience; then, on second thoughts, felt it would have not made an iota of difference to the trouble makers and their agenda!!)