The document is an open letter to Indian citizens opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR), and National Register of Indian Citizens (NRIC) on constitutional and practical grounds. It makes the following key points:
1) The NPR and NRIC are unnecessary exercises that will cause hardship and financial burden without addressing any major issue. Data collected is already available through Aadhaar.
2) The CAA is morally and constitutionally problematic as it discriminates based on religion and excludes Muslims. It has stoked fears, especially among Muslims.
3) The government's conflicting statements and plans for widespread foreign tribunals and detention camps have further caused confusion and apprehen
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National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951 is a register prepared after the conduct of the Census of 1951 in respect of each village, showing the houses or holdings in a serial order and indicating against each house or holding the number and names of persons staying therein. The NRC was published only once in 1951. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) contains names of Indian citizens of Assam www.jatinverma.org
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National Register of Citizens (NRC), 1951 is a register prepared after the conduct of the Census of 1951 in respect of each village, showing the houses or holdings in a serial order and indicating against each house or holding the number and names of persons staying therein. The NRC was published only once in 1951. The National Register of Citizens (NRC) contains names of Indian citizens of Assam www.jatinverma.org
Citizenship Amendment Act CAA 2019 In India The Conflict Between Humanity and...ijtsrd
The Citizenship Amendment Act CAA is a totally unconstitutional amendment. This amendment changes the 2003 04 restraint regarding citizenship rights for illegal migrants. In 2019 CAA lucidly violate the secular nature of the constitution and also oppose the fundamental rights Article 14. CAA compromise only with the six named religious groups or there are no social reason why only illegal migrants picked up from these three countries Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and why protection given only to these three countries illegal migrants. As the bill turned into Act 12 Dec 2019. The Muslim community protest the act and termed it totally communal based act. So, India must drop the idea of CAA and NRC that have been enacted with bitterness against India largest minority i.e. Muslims. History has witnessed that whoever avoid minorities rights, human rights to equality and liberty of its citizenship had paid very heavy price in the past. So, if you support the citizenship amendment bill, then you are basically supporting the Two nation theory, which defines Hindu and Muslims cannot live together and they need to be given separate state. In past every Indian freedom fighter supports Hindu Muslim unity and gave us a message of peaceful co existence. Shally Rani "Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 In India: The Conflict Between Humanity & Cultural Identity" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30853.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/30853/citizenship-amendment-act-caa-2019-in-india-the-conflict-between-humanity-and-cultural-identity/shally-rani
It is 15 years since the Right to Information Act was introduced as another piece of legislation, only to cheat the masses once again. Touted as a sunshine act, as a panacea for corruption and introduce accountability of the public servants to the public, it has grown into one of the biggest, yet unrecognized, scams over the last 15 years.
Short of a decade after Anna Hazare led Anti Corruption Movement took the nation by storm from Jantar Mantar, the Lokpal is a reality in the country. As soon as the agitation had begun gathering momentum, the then UPA government led by Man Mohan Singh brought in a Bill in 2011 that was derided by the activists as Jokepal. They came up with a draft bill touted as Jan Lokpal. After some stalemate the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 became a reality in 2014. To be precise it became effective from 16 Jan 2014. But the appointment of the first Chairman and members of the Lokpal took another five years.
Caveat - Volume February-March 2014 - LBH MasyarakatLBH Masyarakat
In this edition, Muhammad Afif Abdul Qoyim, an LBH Masyarakat’s caseworker, writes an article analyzing the possibility of the detainees, who are detained in police stations or other law enforcement agencies’ detention center, losing their right to vote. This is because the Election Committee does not seem very well prepared in securing their right to vote. He emphasizes, in the “Human Rights, Law, and Politics” column, the Election Committee must not only focus on the statutory election violations, – either those came from the political parties or the political candidates, but they also must be concerned with the detainees’ right to vote and to ensure that right is guaranteed, this is because right to vote is one of citizen’s rights protected by the Indonesia’s Constitution.
In the “Human Rights, HIV, and Drugs Policy” column, Aditiya Putra – an LBH Masyarakat’s Human Rights and Law program officer, writes an article about the new Indonesian social security and health care regulation. He criticizes this regulation on the ground that it is very discriminative against drug users. He argues that social security should be given equally to all citizens – a principle of universal coverage. However, contrary to this principle, the government, by enacting this regulation of social health security, the drug users will potentially be excluded from accessing that social security system. This is a discriminatory policy and it violates drug users’ right to health, as Aditiya argues.
Also, in this column, Ratna Dyah Kusumadewi, a legal intern at LBH Masyarakat, analyzes the inconsistencies of drug rehabilitation verdicts in Indonesia. She critically analyzes three different courts decisions. She pinpoints cases and rules, which could be precedents for judges to enforce rehabilitation based judgment for drug offenders, who are in need for drug treatments. She also recommends that judges should not merely interpret laws in black letter laws but also looking at the individual circumstances of each case for the interest of justice.
The last but not the least, Albert Wirya – an LBH Masyarakat’s volunteer and currently completing criminology studies at the University of Indonesia, will share his experience on working on a criminal casework, which the LBH Masyarakat is the clients’ legal representative. The case is
4 CAVEAT | February - March 2014
about a group of fishermen who are suspected trying to smuggle foreigners into Australia. In
“From Our Archive” column, Albert analyzes the case from the point of views of criminology. In
his essay, Albert focuses on the law enforcement performance when working on an organized
crime, which he argues that they might wrongfully prosecute minors but ironically fail to catch
the ‘big fish’.
Star Wars
The battle between the two celebrity lawyers
in the Delhi High Court is entangled in their
personal enmity and could backfire on
Arvind Kejriwal
The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of usual residents of the country. It is being prepared at the local (Village level), sub District (Tehsil/Taluk level), District, State and National level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.
Citizenship Amendment Act CAA 2019 In India The Conflict Between Humanity and...ijtsrd
The Citizenship Amendment Act CAA is a totally unconstitutional amendment. This amendment changes the 2003 04 restraint regarding citizenship rights for illegal migrants. In 2019 CAA lucidly violate the secular nature of the constitution and also oppose the fundamental rights Article 14. CAA compromise only with the six named religious groups or there are no social reason why only illegal migrants picked up from these three countries Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and why protection given only to these three countries illegal migrants. As the bill turned into Act 12 Dec 2019. The Muslim community protest the act and termed it totally communal based act. So, India must drop the idea of CAA and NRC that have been enacted with bitterness against India largest minority i.e. Muslims. History has witnessed that whoever avoid minorities rights, human rights to equality and liberty of its citizenship had paid very heavy price in the past. So, if you support the citizenship amendment bill, then you are basically supporting the Two nation theory, which defines Hindu and Muslims cannot live together and they need to be given separate state. In past every Indian freedom fighter supports Hindu Muslim unity and gave us a message of peaceful co existence. Shally Rani "Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 In India: The Conflict Between Humanity & Cultural Identity" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-4 , June 2020, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd30853.pdf Paper Url :https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/political-science/30853/citizenship-amendment-act-caa-2019-in-india-the-conflict-between-humanity-and-cultural-identity/shally-rani
It is 15 years since the Right to Information Act was introduced as another piece of legislation, only to cheat the masses once again. Touted as a sunshine act, as a panacea for corruption and introduce accountability of the public servants to the public, it has grown into one of the biggest, yet unrecognized, scams over the last 15 years.
Short of a decade after Anna Hazare led Anti Corruption Movement took the nation by storm from Jantar Mantar, the Lokpal is a reality in the country. As soon as the agitation had begun gathering momentum, the then UPA government led by Man Mohan Singh brought in a Bill in 2011 that was derided by the activists as Jokepal. They came up with a draft bill touted as Jan Lokpal. After some stalemate the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 became a reality in 2014. To be precise it became effective from 16 Jan 2014. But the appointment of the first Chairman and members of the Lokpal took another five years.
Caveat - Volume February-March 2014 - LBH MasyarakatLBH Masyarakat
In this edition, Muhammad Afif Abdul Qoyim, an LBH Masyarakat’s caseworker, writes an article analyzing the possibility of the detainees, who are detained in police stations or other law enforcement agencies’ detention center, losing their right to vote. This is because the Election Committee does not seem very well prepared in securing their right to vote. He emphasizes, in the “Human Rights, Law, and Politics” column, the Election Committee must not only focus on the statutory election violations, – either those came from the political parties or the political candidates, but they also must be concerned with the detainees’ right to vote and to ensure that right is guaranteed, this is because right to vote is one of citizen’s rights protected by the Indonesia’s Constitution.
In the “Human Rights, HIV, and Drugs Policy” column, Aditiya Putra – an LBH Masyarakat’s Human Rights and Law program officer, writes an article about the new Indonesian social security and health care regulation. He criticizes this regulation on the ground that it is very discriminative against drug users. He argues that social security should be given equally to all citizens – a principle of universal coverage. However, contrary to this principle, the government, by enacting this regulation of social health security, the drug users will potentially be excluded from accessing that social security system. This is a discriminatory policy and it violates drug users’ right to health, as Aditiya argues.
Also, in this column, Ratna Dyah Kusumadewi, a legal intern at LBH Masyarakat, analyzes the inconsistencies of drug rehabilitation verdicts in Indonesia. She critically analyzes three different courts decisions. She pinpoints cases and rules, which could be precedents for judges to enforce rehabilitation based judgment for drug offenders, who are in need for drug treatments. She also recommends that judges should not merely interpret laws in black letter laws but also looking at the individual circumstances of each case for the interest of justice.
The last but not the least, Albert Wirya – an LBH Masyarakat’s volunteer and currently completing criminology studies at the University of Indonesia, will share his experience on working on a criminal casework, which the LBH Masyarakat is the clients’ legal representative. The case is
4 CAVEAT | February - March 2014
about a group of fishermen who are suspected trying to smuggle foreigners into Australia. In
“From Our Archive” column, Albert analyzes the case from the point of views of criminology. In
his essay, Albert focuses on the law enforcement performance when working on an organized
crime, which he argues that they might wrongfully prosecute minors but ironically fail to catch
the ‘big fish’.
Star Wars
The battle between the two celebrity lawyers
in the Delhi High Court is entangled in their
personal enmity and could backfire on
Arvind Kejriwal
The National Population Register (NPR) is a Register of usual residents of the country. It is being prepared at the local (Village level), sub District (Tehsil/Taluk level), District, State and National level under provisions of the Citizenship Act 1955 and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003.
The controversy over the Citizenship (Amendment) Act appears to simmer – and of late has led to communal riots. I have failed hopelessly to comprehend what the controversy is all about.
Aadhaar and Personal Sensitive Information in the centralised database maintained by UIDAI is "Janamkundali" of an individual. It must be protected by Central Government like valuable Jewellery, diamond and white Gold.
Between Fear and Hatred: Surviving Migration Detention in AssamAmnesty India
As on 25 September 2018, 1,037 persons declared foreigners were being detained in detention centres in Assam. Many do not know what crimes have led to their incarceration. Most of them do not know what the future holds. They have no certainty about whether they will ever be released, and if so, when.
Johnsons Veto Message (1866) In 1866, the Republican cont.docxvrickens
Johnson's Veto Message (1866)
In 1866, the Republican controlled Congress passed the Civil Rights Bill. The legislation defined
all persons born in the United States as citizens and mandated certain rights regardless of race.
President Andrew Johnson surprised everyone by vetoing the legislation. Congress overturned
his veto in April, marking the first time a major piece of legislation had been enacted over a
presidential veto. As you examine this document, consider what principles of American
government Johnson believed he was upholding by exercising his veto power. Does Johnson's
view have roots in any of the major political traditions -- republican or liberal -- upon which the
nation was first founded? What new values does the law seek to impose on what until the crisis
of the Civil War was by and large a white man's country?
To the Senate of the United States:
...
By the first section of the bill, all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any
foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are declared to be citizens of the United States. This
provision comprehends the Chinese of the Pacific States, Indians subject to taxation, the people
called Gypsies, as well as the entire race designated as blacks, people of color, negroes,
mulattoes, and persons of African blood.
...
The right of Federal citizenship thus to be conferred on the several excepted races before
mentioned is now, for the first time, proposed to be given by law. ... If...such persons are not
citizens...the grave question presents itself, whether, when eleven of the thirty-six States are
unrepresented in Congress, at this time it is sound policy to make our entire colored population
and all other excepted classes citizens of the United States? Four millions of them have just
emerged from slavery into freedom. Can it be reasonably supposed that they possess the requisite
qualifications to entitle them to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States?
Have the people of the several States expressed such a conviction? It may also be asked whether
it is necessary that they should be declared citizens in order that they may be secured in the
enjoyment of civil rights? ... Besides, the policy of the Government, from its origin to the present
time, seems to have been that persons who are strangers to and unfamiliar with our institutions
and our laws should pass through a certain probation, at the end of which, before attaining the
coveted prize, they must five evidence of their fitness to receive and to exercise the rights of
citizens as contemplated by the Constitution of the United States.
This bill, in effect, proposes discrimination against large numbers of intelligent, worthy, and
patriotic foreigners, and in favor of the negro, to whom, after long years of bondage, the avenues
to freedom and intelligence have now been suddenly opened. He must, of necessity, from his
previous unfortunate condition of s ...
राष्ट्रीय जनसंख्या रजिस्टर (एनपीआर) बनाने के एक उद्देश्य के लिए आधार डेटा का उपयोग करके, जो अखिल भारतीय राष्ट्रीय नागरिक रजिस्टर (एनआरसी) की दिशा में पहला कदम है एक नागरिक जांच से पता चलता है; त्वरित गति से 2015 से 119.34 करोड़ भारतीयों को सूचीबद्ध किया गया है।
El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
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Here is Gabe Whitley's response to my defamation lawsuit for him calling me a rapist and perjurer in court documents.
You have to read it to believe it, but after you read it, you won't believe it. And I included eight examples of defamatory statements/
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
1. 1
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF INDIA:
INDIA DOES NOT NEED THE CAA-NPR-NRIC
9 January 2020
Dear Fellow Citizens of India,
Over the past few weeks, many of you have been understandably agitated over the
enactment of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 ("CAA"). Your fears have been compounded
by the contradictory and confusing statements made by spokespersons of the Government of India
on the implementation of the National Register of Indian Citizens ("NRIC"), Though that
government now seeks to delink the National Population Register (“NPR”) from the NRIC, we,
the Constitutional Conduct Group, comprising former civil servants from the All-India and Central
Services committed to the Constitution of India, consider it our duty to inform you that the three
issues are linked, acquaint you with the facts regarding the NPR, NRIC and the CAA and
emphasise why these measures need to be resolutely opposed. For easy comprehension, we are
listing the issues pointwise:
1. There is no need for the NPR and NRIC
Both the NPR and NRIC exercises flow out of the amendments in 2003 to the
Citizenship Act, 1955 (“1955 Act”) and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue
of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 ("2003 Rules") framed by the then NDA
government in 2003. The NPR has nothing to do with the Census of India, which is
conducted every ten years and is next due in 2021. While the Census collects information
about all residents of India without listing their names, the NPR is a list of names of all
those who have lived in India for over six months, regardless of their nationality. A
Population Register will contain the list of persons usually residing within a specified local
area (village/town/ward/demarcated area).
The NRIC will effectively be a subset of the Population Registers for the entire
country. The 2003 Rules provide for verification of the details in the Population Register
by the Local Registrar (normally a taluka or town functionary) who will separate out cases
of doubtful citizenship and conduct further enquiries. After carrying out enquiries in
respect of residents whose citizenship status is suspect, the Local Registrar will prepare a
draft Local Register of Indian Citizens, which would exclude those not able to establish,
through documentary proof, their claim to be citizens of India.
It is at this stage that the experience of the citizens of Assam can cause
apprehensions in the minds of those who are required to establish their citizenship, whether
or not they profess any religion. The NPR 2020, unlike the NPR 2010, asks not only for
the names of the parents of the resident, but also seeks to also record their dates and places
of birth. A person who is not able to furnish these details for his/her parents or, for that
matter, for himself/herself, could well be classified a “doubtful citizen”.
2. 2
The 2003 amendments to the 1955 Act (vide Sections 3 (b), 3 (c) and 14A) and the
consequent introduction of the 2003 Rules seem to indicate an undue obsession about
illegal migrants, without any factual basis. We fail to understand the need for a nationwide
identification of “illegal migrants”, which is what the NRIC in effect amounts to, when
census statistics over the past seven decades do not show any major demographic shifts,
except in certain pockets in some areas of North-Eastern and Eastern India adjoining our
neighbouring countries.
We are apprehensive that the vast powers to include or exclude a person from the
Local Register of Indian Citizens that is going to be vested in the bureaucracy at a fairly
junior level has the scope to be employed in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner, subject
to local pressures and to meet specific political objectives, not to mention the unbridled
scope for large-scale corruption. Added to this is the provision for objections to the draft
Local Register from any person. The Assam NRC exercise has thrown up the dangers of
such a large-scale exercise: lakhs of citizens have been made to spend their life’s savings
running from pillar to post to establish their citizenship credentials. Worrying reports are
already coming in of people in different parts of India rushing in panic to obtain the
necessary birth documents. The problem is magnified in a country where the maintenance
of birth records is poor, coupled with highly inefficient birth registration systems. Errors
of inclusion and exclusion have been a feature of all large-scale surveys in India, the Below
Poverty Line survey and the Socio-Economic Caste Census being prime examples. The
recently completed NRC exercise in Assam has been equally error-ridden and has led to
major discontent. Indeed the State Government itself, with the BJP in power, has rejected
its own NRC data, an extremely ludicrous scenario.
The provisions of the CAA, coupled with rather aggressive statements over the past
few years from the highest levels of this government, rightly cause deep unease in India’s
Muslim community, which has already faced discrimination and attacks on issues ranging
from allegations of love jihad to cattle smuggling and beef consumption. That the Muslim
community has had to face the brunt of police action in recent days only in those states
where the local police is controlled by the party in power at the centre only adds credence
to the widespread feeling that the NPR-NRIC exercise could be used for selective targeting
of specific communities and individuals.
Added to the inconvenience that the NPR would put the common person through
is the unnecessary expenditure on the NPR exercise, when data which is now to be gathered
is already available through the Aadhaar system: these include name, address, date of birth,
father/husband’s name and gender. Most Indian citizens are already covered by Aadhaar.
The purpose of gathering a lot of the additional data (over and above the Aadhaar details)
is unclear and will only give rise to the reasonable apprehension that the bona fide citizen
could be enmeshed in an interminable, costly bureaucratic exercise if his/her citizenship
status comes under doubt.
3. 3
Our group of former civil servants, with many years of service in the public sphere,
is firmly of the view that both the NPR and the NRIC are unnecessary and wasteful
exercises, which will cause hardship to the public at large and will also entail public
expenditure that is better spent on schemes benefiting the poor and disadvantaged sections
of society. They also constitute an invasion of the citizens’ right to privacy, since a lot of
information, including Aadhaar, mobile numbers and voter IDs will be listed in a
document, with scope for misuse.
2. Why authorise widespread setting up of Foreigners’ Tribunals and detention camps?:
The Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 (issued on 30 May 2019) has
unnecessarily stoked fears that Foreigners’ Tribunals can now be set up on the orders of
any District Magistrate in India and is the precursor to a widespread exercise to identify
“illegal migrants”. While the central government may contend that there is no such
intention, it was surely impolitic, given the prevailing atmosphere in Assam and elsewhere,
to issue such blanket orders delegating powers for constituting Foreigners’ Tribunals. The
experience with Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam has been, to put it bluntly, traumatic for
those at the receiving end. After running the gamut of gathering documents and answering
objections to their citizenship claims, “doubtful citizens” have also had to contend with
these Tribunals, the composition and functioning of which were highly discretionary and
arbitrary. Consequently, a number of citizens lost their lives in the quest for affirming
citizenship or have had to suffer the indignity of incarceration in detention camps.
There have also been media reports, not denied by the Government of India, that
orders for setting up detention camps have been given to all state governments. We are
frankly bemused by the Prime Minister’s recent statement that no such camps are in
existence, when reports have documented the construction of such camps in states as far
apart as Goalpara in Assam and Nelamangala in Karnataka and the intention to construct a
detention centre in Navi Mumbai in Maharashtra. The Government of India has not come
out with any statistics to show that the “illegal migrants” problem in India is so severe that
it requires the large-scale construction of detention camps all over the country.
3. The constitutional and moral untenability of the CAA:
We have our grave reservations about the constitutional validity of the CAA
provisions, which we also consider to be morally indefensible. We would like to emphasise
that a statute that consciously excludes the Muslim religion from its purview is bound to
give rise to apprehensions in what is a very large segment of India’s population. A
formulation that focused on those suffering persecution (religious, political, social) in any
country in the world would not only have calmed local apprehensions but would also have
been appreciated by the international community. In its current formulation, the CAA does
not even mention the word "persecuted", probably because using this word in the context
of Afghanistan and Bangladesh would have marred India's relations with these countries.
4. 4
Given that the Government of India has powers to grant citizenship after a migrant has
completed eleven years in India, it would be instructive to know whether the Government
of India has cleared all pending cases of “illegal migrants” till end-2008. Since the
discretion to grant citizenship and to exempt individuals/groups from the purview of the
Passport Act, 1920 and the Foreigners Act, 1946 lies entirely with the Government of India,
this discretion could have been exercised on a case by case basis by the Government of
India without any need to go through the exercise of the CAA and mentioning specific
communities from specific countries.
What has given rise to grave apprehensions about the intentions of the Government of India
has been the rash of statements by Ministers of the Government of India in recent times, linking
the NRIC and the CAA. The Prime Minister’s statement at a public meeting in Delhi on 22
December that the CAA and the NRIC are not linked contradicts the averments of his Home
Minister on repeated occasions in various fora. In such a welter of conflicting and confusing
utterances, it is hardly surprising that the ordinary citizen is left bewildered and is overcome by
unknown fears, more so when government has not entered into any dialogue on this issue. At a
time when the economic situation in the country warrants the closest attention of the government,
India can ill afford a situation where the citizenry and the government enter into confrontation on
the roads. Nor is it desirable to have a situation where the majority of State Governments are not
inclined to implement the NPR/NRIC, leading to an impasse in centre-state relations, so crucial
in a federal set up like India. Above all, we see a situation developing where India is in danger of
losing international goodwill and alienating its immediate neighbours, with adverse consequences
for the security set-up in the sub-continent. India also stands to lose its position as a moral beacon
guiding many other countries on the path to liberal democracy.
We, therefore, urge our fellow citizens to insist, as we do, that the Government of India
pay heed to the voice of the citizens of India and take the following steps at the earliest:
(1) Repeal Sections 14A and 18 (2) (ia) of the Citizenship Act, 1955, pertaining to the issue of
national identity cards and its procedures and the Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and
Issue of National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 in its entirety.
(2) Withdraw the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 and withdraw all
instructions for construction of detention camps.
(3) Repeal the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019.
SATYAMEVA JAYATE
CONSTITUTIONAL CONDUCT GROUP
(106 signatories, as below)
5. 5
1. Anita Agnihotri IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Social Justice
Empowerment, GoI
2. Salahuddin
Ahmad
IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
3. V.S. Ailawadi IAS (Retd.) Former Vice Chairman, Delhi Development Authority
4. S.P. Ambrose IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Secretary, Ministry of Shipping &
Transport, GoI
5. Anand Arni R&AW
(Retd.)
Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
6. Mohinderpal
Aulakh
IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police (Jails), Govt. of
Punjab
7. N. Bala Baskar IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (Finance), Ministry of External
Affairs, GoI
8. Vappala
Balachandran
IPS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Cabinet Secretariat, GoI
9. Gopalan
Balagopal
IAS (Retd.) Former Special Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
10. Chandrashekhar
Balakrishnan
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Coal, GoI
11. Sharad Behar IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
12. Madhu Bhaduri IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Portugal
13. Meeran C
Borwankar
IPS (Retd.) Former DGP, Bureau of Police Research and
Development, GoI
14. Ravi Budhiraja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, GoI
15. Sundar Burra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
16. R.
Chandramohan
IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary, Transport and Urban
Development, Govt. of NCT of Delhi
17. K.M.
Chandrasekhar
IAS (Retd.) Former Cabinet Secretary, GoI
18. Rachel
Chatterjee
IAS (Retd.) Former Special Chief Secretary, Agriculture, Govt. of
Andhra Pradesh
19. Kalyani
Chaudhuri
IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West
Bengal
20. Anna Dani IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
21. Surjit K. Das IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Uttarakhand
22. Vibha Puri Das IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, GoI
23. P.R. Dasgupta IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Food Corporation of India, GoI
24. Nareshwar
Dayal
IFS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and
former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
25. Pradeep K. Deb IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Deptt. Of Sports, GoI
26. Nitin Desai IES (Retd.) Former Secretary and Chief Economic Adviser, Ministry
of Finance, GoI
27. Keshav
Desiraju
IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
28. M.G.
Devasahayam
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Govt. of Haryana
29. Sushil Dubey IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Sweden
30. K.P. Fabian IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Italy
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31. Prabhu Ghate IAS (Retd.) Former Addl. Director General, Department of Tourism,
GoI
32. Arif Ghauri IRS (Retd.) Former Governance Adviser, DFID, Govt. of the United
Kingdom (on deputation)
33. Gourisankar
Ghosh
IAS (Retd.) Former Mission Director, National Drinking Water
Mission, GoI
34. S.K. Guha IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Department of Women & Child
Development, GoI
35. Meena Gupta IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests,
GoI
36. Ravi Vira
Gupta
IAS (Retd.) Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India
37. Wajahat
Habibullah
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI and Chief Information
Commissioner
38. Deepa Hari IRS
(Resigned)
39. Sajjad Hassan IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner (Planning), Govt. of Manipur
40. Siraj Hussain IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Agriculture, GoI
41. Kamal Jaswal IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information
Technology, GoI
42. Jagdish Joshi IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary (Planning), Govt. of
Maharashtra
43. Najeeb Jung IAS (Retd.) Former Lieutenant Governor, Delhi
44. Rahul Khullar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of
India
45. K. John Koshy IAS (Retd.) Former State Chief Information Commissioner, West
Bengal
46. Ajai Kumar IFoS
(Retd.)
Former Director, Ministry of Agriculture, GoI
47. Arun Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, National Pharmaceutical Pricing
Authority, GoI
48. Brijesh Kumar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Department of Information
Technology, GoI
49. P.K. Lahiri IAS (Retd.) Former Executive Director, Asian Development Bank
50. Subodh Lal IPoS
(Resigned)
Former Deputy Director General, Ministry of
Communications, GoI
51. S.K. Lambah IFS (Retd.) Former Special Envoy of the Prime Minister of India
52. P.M.S. Malik IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Myanmar & Special Secretary,
MEA, GoI
53. Harsh Mander IAS (Retd.) Govt. of Madhya Pradesh
54. Lalit Mathur IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, National Institute of Rural
Development, GoI
55. Aditi Mehta IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Rajasthan
56. Shivshankar
Menon
IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former National Security
Adviser
57. Sonalini
Mirchandani
IFS
(Resigned)
GoI
58. Sunil Mitra IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
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59. Deb Mukharji IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to Bangladesh and former
Ambassador to Nepal
60. Shiv Shankar
Mukherjee
IFS (Retd.) Former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
61. Pranab S.
Mukhopadhyay
IAS (Retd.) Former Director, Institute of Port Management, GoI
62. Sobha
Nambisan
IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Secretary (Planning), Govt. of
Karnataka
63. P.G.J.
Nampoothiri
IPS (Retd.) Former Director General of Police, Govt. of Gujarat
64. Surendra Nath IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Finance Commission, Govt. of Madhya
Pradesh
65. P.A. Nazareth IFS (Retd.) GoI
66. Amitabha
Pande
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Inter-State Council, GoI
67. Alok Perti IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Coal, GoI
68. R.M.
Premkumar
IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of Maharashtra
69. T.R.
Raghunandan
IAS (Retd.) Former Joint Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, GoI
70. N.K.
Raghupathy
IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Staff Selection Commission, GoI
71. V.P. Raja IAS (Retd.) Former Chairman, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory
Commission
72. C. Babu Rajeev IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, GoI
73. K. Sujatha Rao IAS (Retd.) Former Health Secretary, GoI
74. M.Y. Rao IAS (Retd.)
75. Satwant Reddy IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, GoI
76. Julio Ribeiro IPS (Retd.) Former Adviser to Governor of Punjab & former
Ambassador to Romania
77. Aruna Roy IAS
(Resigned)
78. Manabendra N.
Roy
IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of West
Bengal
79. Deepak Sanan IAS (Retd.) Former Principal Adviser (AR) to Chief Minister, Govt.
of Himachal Pradesh
80. G. Sankaran IC&CES
(Retd.)
Former President, Customs, Excise and Gold (Control)
Appellate Tribunal
81. Shyam Saran IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary and Former Chairman,
National Security Advisory Board
82. S. Satyabhama IAS (Retd.) Former Chairperson, National Seeds Corporation, GoI
83. N.C. Saxena IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Planning Commission, GoI
84. Ardhendu Sen IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary, Govt. of West Bengal
85. Abhijit
Sengupta
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI
86. Aftab Seth IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Japan
87. Ashok Kumar
Sharma
IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Finland and Estonia
88. Navrekha
Sharma
IFS (Retd.) Former Ambassador to Indonesia
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89. Pravesh Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya
Pradesh
90. Raju Sharma IAS (Retd.) Former Member, Board of Revenue, Govt. of Uttar
Pradesh
91. Rashmi Shukla
Sharma
IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Govt. of Madhya
Pradesh
92. Har Mander
Singh
IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, ESI Corporation, GoI
93. Padamvir Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Director, LBSNAA, Mussoorie, GoI
94. Satyavir Singh IRS (Retd.) Former Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, GoI
95. Sujatha Singh IFS (Retd.) Former Foreign Secretary, GoI
96. Tirlochan Singh IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, National Commission for Minorities,
GoI
97. Jawhar Sircar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Culture, GoI, & former
CEO, Prasar Bharati
98. Narendra
Sisodia
IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Finance, GoI
99. Manoj
Srivastava
IAS (Retd.) Former Commissioner, Departmental Enquiries (Chief
Secretary rank)
100. Sanjivi Sundar IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary, Ministry of Surface Transport, GoI
101. Parveen Talha IRS (Retd.) Former Member, Union Public Service Commission
102. Thanksy
Thekkekera
IAS (Retd.) Former Additional Chief Secretary, Minorities
Development, Govt. of Maharashtra
103. P.S.S. Thomas IAS (Retd.) Former Secretary General, National Human Rights
Commission
104. Geetha Thoopal IRAS
(Retd.)
Former General Manager, Metro Railway, Kolkata
105. Hindal Tyabji IAS (Retd.) Former Chief Secretary rank, Govt. of Jammu &
Kashmir
106. Ramani
Venkatesan
IAS (Retd.) Former Director General, YASHADA, Govt. of
Maharashtra