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An Open Letter to the Citizens of India Established 1946 1 Pages 20 Price : Rupees Five Vol. 74 No. 52 An Open Letter to the Citizens of India January 19, 2020 Constitutional Conduct Group A Million Mutinies Tied Together by Humanity and Hope Prem Panicker A group of 106 former senior to be resolutely opposed. CAA–NRC Protests: Why Gandhi bureaucrats with the government • The NPR 2020 has nothing Would H ave Been Proud of Today’s of India have organised themselves to do with the Census to be Youth as the Constitutional Conduct conducted in 2021. Unlike the Syed Ubaidur Rahman Group. Most of them were IAS, 2010 version of the National Shaheen Bagh: Thousands Say in One Voice—Nothing Less Than CAA and include IPS, IRS, IFS officials. Population Register, the new Roll-Back They include top former Secretaries, version asks not only for the Tarique Anwar DGPs and even RAW officials. The names of the parents of the Shaheen Bagh-Inspired Protests signatories include former National resident, but also seeks to also Spread Across the Country Abdul Alim Jafri, Chandni Doulatramani Security Advisor Shivshankar record their dates and places of and Ruchika Goswamy Menon; former Foreign Secretary birth. A person who is not able Pan-India NRC May Lead to Initial and former Chairman, National to furnish these details for his/ Exclusion of 10 Crore Applicants Security Advisory Board, Shyam her parents or, for that matter, Amitava Bandyopadhyay Saran, IFS (Retd.); former Director for himself/herself, could well Large-Scale Bangladeshi Migration to Assam a Myth? General of Police, Govt. of Gujarat, be classified a ‘doubtful citizen’. Debasish Bhattacharjee P.G.J. Nampoothiri, IPS (Retd.); • Census statistics over the past Economy in Shambles, But PM former Special Secretary, Cabinet seven decades do not show Asking Culprits for Solution! Secretariat, Anand Arni, R&AW any significant demographic Subodh Varma (Retd.); former Director General shift in India’s population, and Editor : G. G. Parikh of Police (Jails), Govt. of Punjab, therefore the identification of Mohinderpal Aulakh, IPS (Retd.); illegal migrants seems to be Associate Editor : Neeraj Jain former IAS Harsh Mander, IAS unnecessary, as proposed under Managing Editor : Guddi (retd.), and former member of India’s the nationwide NRC. Editorial Board : National Advisory Council; and • The expenditure on the former Delhi Lieutenant Governor proposed NPR exercise seems B. Vivekanandan, Qurban Ali, Najeeb Jung, among others. unreasonable now that most Anil Nauriya, Sonal Shah, Declaring themselves as committed Indian citizens are already Amarendra Dhaneshwar, to the Constitution of India, they covered by the Aadhaar scheme. Sandeep Pandey highlight the following points in an • The bureaucracy at a fairly D-15, Ganesh Prasad, open letter to the Citizens of India junior level has been given vast Naushir Bharucha Marg, (the letter is reproduced in full powers to include or exclude Mumbai - 400 007. below): a person from the NRC. This • Though the government has tried gives scope for these powers to Email : [email protected] to separate the CAA, NRC and be employed in an arbitrary and Website:www.janataweekly.org NPR, they are linked and need discriminatory manner, subject 2 JANATA, January 19, 2020 to local pressures and to meet Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 provide for verification of the details specific political objectives. (“CAA”). Your fears have been in the Population Register by the • There is also large scope for compounded by the contradictory Local Registrar (normally a taluka or corruption in this exercise. and confusing statements made by town functionary) who will separate • This exercise is very difficult to spokespersons of the Government of out cases of doubtful citizenship conduct in a country where the India on the implementation of the and conduct further enquiries. After maintenance of birth records is National Register of Indian Citizens carrying out enquiries in respect of poor. (“NRIC”). Though the government residents whose citizenship status • The NRC exercise conducted now seeks to delink the National is suspect, the Local Registrar in Assam last year left out 19 Population Register (“NPR”) from will prepare a draft Local Register lakh people, or 6% of Assam’s the NRIC, we, the Constitutional of Indian Citizens, which would population. It is ludicrous that Conduct Group, comprising former exclude those not able to establish, the Assam government, which civil servants from the All-India and through documentary proof, their is ruled by the BJP, has rejected Central Services committed to the claim to be citizens of India. its own NRC data. Constitution of India, consider it It is at this stage that the • The provisions of the CAA, our duty to inform you that the three experience of the citizens of Assam coupled with rather aggressive issues are linked, acquaint you with can cause apprehensions in the statements over the past few the facts regarding the NPR, NRIC minds of those who are required to years from the highest levels and the CAA and emphasise why establish their citizenship, whether of this government, rightly these measures need to be resolutely or not they profess any religion. cause deep unease in India’s opposed. For easy comprehension, The NPR 2020, unlike the NPR Muslim community. In states we are listing the issues pointwise: 2010, asks not only for the names where the BJP has control over of the parents of the resident, but the local police, the Muslim There is no need for the NPR and also seeks to also record their dates community has had to face the NRIC and places of birth. A person who is brunt of police action. Therefore, Both the NPR and NRIC not able to furnish these details for concerns arise that the NRC and exercises flow out of the amendments his/her parents or, for that matter, NPR could be used for selective in 2003 to the Citizenship Act, 1955 for himself/herself, could well be targeting of communities and (“1955 Act”) and the Citizenship classified a “doubtful citizen”. individuals. (Registration of Citizens and Issue of The 2003 amendments to the • The experience with Foreigners’ National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003 1955 Act (vide Sections 3 (b), 3 Tribunals in Assam has been (“2003 Rules”) framed by the then (c) and 14A) and the consequent traumatic for those at the NDA government in 2003. The NPR introduction of the 2003 Rules seem receiving end. The government has nothing to do with the Census of to indicate an undue obsession about must withdraw the Foreigners India, which is conducted every ten illegal migrants, without any factual (Tribunals) Amendment Order, years and is next due in 2021. While basis. We fail to understand the need 2019, which gives powers to any the Census collects information for a nationwide identification of district magistrate of India to set about all residents of India without “illegal migrants”, which is what up Foreigners’ Tribunals and is listing their names, the NPR is a the NRIC in effect amounts to, when the precursor to a widespread list of names of all those who have census statistics over the past seven exercise to identify ‘illegal lived in India for over six months, decades do not show any major migrants’. regardless of their nationality. A demographic shifts, except in certain Population Register will contain pockets in some areas of North- FULL TEXT OF THE LETTER the list of persons usually residing Eastern and Eastern India adjoining within a specified local area (village/ our neighbouring countries. Dear Fellow Citizens of India, town/ward/demarcated area). We are apprehensive that the Over the past few weeks, many The NRIC will effectively be a vast powers to include or exclude of you have been understandably subset of the Population Registers for a person from the Local Register agitated over the enactment of the the entire country. The 2003 Rules of Indian Citizens that is going to JANATA, January 19, 2020 3 be vested in the bureaucracy at a of police action in recent days only Amendment Order, 2019 (issued fairly junior level has the scope to in those states where the local police on 30 May 2019) has unnecessarily be employed in an arbitrary and is controlled by the party in power stoked fears that Foreigners’ discriminatory manner, subject to at the centre only adds credence Tribunals can now be set up on the local pressures and to meet specific to the widespread feeling that the orders of any District Magistrate political objectives, not to mention NPR–NRIC exercise could be used in India and is the precursor to a the unbridled scope for large-scale for selective targeting of specific widespread exercise to identify corruption. Added to this is the communities and individuals. “illegal migrants”. While the central provision for objections to the draft Added to the inconvenience that government may contend that there Local Register from any person. The the NPR would put the common is no such intention, it was surely Assam NRC exercise has thrown person through is the unnecessary impolitic, given the prevailing up the dangers of such a large- expenditure on the NPR exercise, atmosphere in Assam and elsewhere, scale exercise: lakhs of citizens when data which is now to be to issue such blanket orders delegating have been made to spend their gathered is already available through powers for constituting Foreigners’ life’s savings running from pillar the Aadhaar system: these include Tribunals. The experience with to post to establish their citizenship name, address, date of birth, Foreigners’ Tribunals in Assam has credentials. Worrying reports are father/husband’s name and gender. been, to put it bluntly, traumatic for already coming in of people in Most Indian citizens are already those at the receiving end. After different parts of India rushing covered by Aadhaar.
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