Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019
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Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 We, a group of academicians, intellectuals and research scholars are issuing this statement in our personal capacity in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019. The act fulfils the long-standing demand of providing refuge to persecuted religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. Ever since the failure of the Liaquat-Nehru pact of 1950, various leaders and political parties like the Congress, CPI (M) etc, cutting across the ideological spectrum, have demanded the grant of citizenship to religious minorities from Pakistan and Bangladesh who mostly belong to the Dalit castes. We congratulate the Indian parliament and government for standing up for forgotten minorities and upholding the civilizational ethos of India; providing a haven to those fleeing religious persecution. We also note with satisfaction that the concerns of the North-Eastern states have been heard and are being addressed appropriately. We believe that CAA is in perfect sync with the secular constitution of India as it does not prevent any person of any religion from any country, seeking Indian citizenship. Nor does it change the criteria of citizenship in any way; merely providing a special expedited redress, under special circumstances, for minorities fleeing religious persecution from three specific countries i.e. Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. It does not in any way prevent Ahmadis, Hazaras, Baloch or any other denominations and ethnicities, from these same three countries, seeking citizenship through regular processes. We also note with deep anguish, that an atmosphere of fear and paranoia is being created in the country through deliberate obfuscation and fear-mongering leading to violence in several parts of the country. We appeal to every section of society to exercise restraint and refuse to fall into the trap of propaganda, communalism and anarchism. 1. Prof. Shri Prakash Singh, Delhi University 2. Prof Kapil Kumar, IGNOU 3. Professor Ainul Hasan, Dean SLL & CS, JNU 4. Shishir Bajoria, Chairman IIM Shillong 5. Prof. Sunaina Singh, Vice Chancellor, Nalanda University 6. Prof Sushma Yadav, Vice-Chancellor, BPS Women's University, Sonipat 7. Meenakshi Jain, Senior Fellow, ICSSR 8. Dr Pramod Kumar, Registrar, JNU 9. Prof. Aswini Mohapatra, Dean, SIS/JNU 10. Prof. Mazhar Asif, Faculty, SL/JNU 11. Professor Umesh Ashok Kadam Chairperson CHS and Dean of Students, JNU 12. Swapan Dasgupta, Noted Columnist & Author 13. Dr Swadesh Singh, Assistant Professor, DU 14. Dr. Tarun Kumar Garg, University of Delhi 15. Sushant Sareen, Senior Fellow, ORF 16. Anirban Ganguly, Columnist and Author 17. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, Senior Fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 18. Dr M.A Beg, Principal, Zakir Husain Delhi College (E ), DU 19. Abhinav Prakash, SRCC, Delhi University 20. Dr Harshad Patel, Vice Chancellor , IITE , Gandhinagar 21. Prof KG Suresh, Ex-director, IIMC, Delhi 22. Kanchan Gupta, Senior Journalist 23. Prof. Aditya Maheshwari, Assistant Professor, IIM Indore. 24. Kausik Gangopadhyay, Associate Professor, IIM Kozhikode 25. Prof Y.L Srinivas, NAAC member, Osmania University 26. Prof G Reddy, UGC member, Osmania University 27. Prof Kaushal Kishor, Political Science, BHU 28. Amit Kumar, Scientist-B, ICMR-AIIMS Genomics Centre, ICMR 29. Dr Arnab Bhattacharya, Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur 30. Priya Sharma, Assistant Professor, University of Delhi 31. Bipin Tiwari, Senior Research Fellow, AIIMS, New Delhi 32. Prof Lakhan Gosain, Syracuse University, USA 33. Prof Sanjeev Sharma, VC, MG Central University, Bihar 34. Nilesh Nilkanth Oak, Institute of Advanced Sciences, Atlanta, USA 35. Sriram Kompella, Research Scholar, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy 36. Dr. Indranil Ghosh Ray, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick, UK 37. Prof Sirajul Islam, Professor, Viswabharti University, West Bengal 38. Dr. Shakti Sharma, Assistant Professor, Bennett University 39. Shweta Soni, PhD candidate, University of Lethbridge, AB Canada 40. Dr. Prajamitra Bhuyan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Imperial College London 41. Dr.Sunil Thummala, MD MBA, US Neuro Specialists, Frisco, TX, USA 42. Dr. Samiran Bag, Senior Research Associate, University of Warwick 43. Dr Debojyoti Das, Postdoc-fellow University of Sheffield, UK 44. Parth Parihar, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University 45. Sonal Pujara Ladva -Psychotherapist-California 46. Bhanu Prasad, University of Oxford, Alumnus Harvard University 47. Dr Abhinay Sharma, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 48. Jagdish Upasane, Ex VC, Makhanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism, Bhopal 49. Dr Rakesh Mudgal, VC, TMU Moradabad 50. Dr Dinesh Agarwal, VC, J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA 51. Dr Achintya Biswas, Ex VC, Gourbanda University, WB 52. Geetha Rajagopal, Austin Texas 53. Dr Vivekananda Roy, Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA 54. Dr Souvik De, Postdoc Research Associate, Kent State University, Ohio, USA 55. Prof Chandan Chaube, Dept of Hindi, DU 56. Tushar Sharma, Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary, Postdoc, Princeton 57. Prof H S Dhami, Former VC- Kumaun University & Almora Residential University 58. Prof ADN Vajpayee, Former VC, President Rashtriya Samajik Vigyan Parishad 59. Dr. Akash Sabarwal, P.hD. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 60. Sagar Dhar, PhD Candidate, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada 61. Dr Varun Gulati, Dr Ambedkar International Centre, Delhi 62. Omkar Joshi, Ph.D. Student, University of Maryland, College Park 63. Dr. Ashish Mishra, Visiting Professor, UFPA, Brazil 64. Dr. Neelima gupta. Research scientist, NUS, Singapore Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 65. Dr. Dhiraj Singh, Scientist NUS, Singapore 66. Dr. Kishor E, Ph.D Mechanical Engineering, IIT Madras 67. Dr. Devendra Shivhare, Research Scientist, NTU, Singapore 68. Dr Debajit Jha, O.P Jindal Global University 69. Dr. Prasenjit Ghosh, PostDoc, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 70. Alok Kumar Dubey, PhD Scholar, Mechanobiology Institute, NUS, Singapore 71. Kapish, PostDoc, University of Pennsylvania, USA 72. Dr. Prabhakar Tiwari, NAOC, CAS, Beijing 73. Prof Basavi Mukerji, Professor, Sangeet Bhavan, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan 74. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vancouver, USA 75. Dr. M. Nrisinhmurty, Post Doc Fellow, University of Central Florida 76. Ayush Kumar, NUS Research Scholar (PhD), National University of Singapore 77. Abhijit Abhyankar, Electrical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi 78. Dr. Anil Kumar Gourishetty, Associate Professor, IIT Roorkee 79. Suraj Krishna, Visiting Fellow, TIFR, Mumbai 80. Dr Saurabh Dixit, IISc Bangalore 81. Mausam Chouksey, Research Scholar, IIT Patna 82. Deba Prasad Dash, PhD Scholar, IIT Patna 83. Dr. Gaurav Trivedi, Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati 84. Ranjan Sariyal, Research Fellow, TIFR 85. Sayan Mukherjee, O. P. Jindal Global University 86. Dr Maroof Ur Rehman, Assistant Professor, ZHDC (E ), DU 87. Swati Savaliya, PhD scholar, IIT Bombay 88. Guru Prakash, Assistant Professor, P.G. Department of Law, Patna University 89. Robin Singla. Ph.D student, IIT Bombay 90. Aditya Malpani, Alumnus, IIT Madras 91. Daya Shankar, Department of Earthquake Engineering, IIT Roorkee 92. Dinesh Kumar, Research Scholar, IIT Delhi 93. Prof. Rakesh V, Assistant Professor, IIM Lucknow 94. Dr. Naveen B R, Ex-Chairman, Students’ Council, IISc Bengaluru. 95. Binodbihari Panda, PhD student,IISC, Bangalore 96. Anupam Mishra, PhD Student, IISc Bangalore 97. Dr. Pankaj Jain, Postdoctoral Researcher, IISc 98. Dr Smita, Doctoral Fellow, IIT Delhi 99. Dr Anand Madhukar, IIT Delhi 100. Prof Vivek Kumar, IIT Delhi 101. R. K. Singh, Dept. of Physics, IIT Bombay 102. Dr. Ram Ture, IIT Madras 103. Amarendra Pratap Singh, PhD Economics, IIT Mumbai 104. Venkatakrishna rao. K, Alumni, IIT Madras, Research Scholar, IIT Varanasi 105. Poonam Gupta, Alumnus, IIT Kharagpur 106. Monika Singh , Research scholar , IIT Roorkee 107. Dr Suhovan Banerjee, EC Member, President Nominee, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan 108. Dr Dulal Chandra Ghosh, EC Member, PM Nominee, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan 109. Prof Debasish Bhattacharya, Principal, Dept of Agriculture, Shantiniketan 110. Prof Swapan Kr Mandal, Dept of Physics, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan 111. Prof Rameshwar Mishra, Dept of Hindi, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 Statement in Support of the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019 112. Dr Manju Mohan Mukherjee, Retd Professor, Visva Bharti, Shantiniketan 113. Dr Azizur Rehman, Librarian, ZHDC, DU 114. Prof Ayan Datta, IACS, Kolkata 115. Barnali Banerjee, Vidyasagar University 116. Rajat Naskar, Calcutta University 117. Barun Naha, Calcutta University 118. Tuhin Kumar Maitra, Calcutta University 119. Prasenjit Das, Calcutta University 120. Arnab Ghosh, Calcutta University 121. Pulak Narayan Dhar, Calcutta University 122. Ayan Banerjee, Calcutta University 123. Smaranika Banerjee, Kalyani University 124. Pradipta Roy, Jadavpur University 125. Anup Ruidas, Vidyasagar University 126. Sanjib Maji, Vidyasagar University 127. Dr Ujjwal Kumar Panda, Vidyasagar University 128. Ujjal Sanyal, Calcutta University 129. Arunita Chandra, Calcutta University 130. Sekhar Mahapatra, Jadavpur University