Tuesday 31 July 2018

ASSAM; SUPREME COURT OF INDIA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; CITIZENSHIP ISSUES

ASSAM; SUPREME COURT OF INDIA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; CITIZENSHIP ISSUES

A register which renders approx. forty lakh people stateless is what the BJP-led govt. is moving towards finalizing these days.

The SC is said to be monitoring this.

I am glad that today, my party, the INC, is taking a just and humane stand against this kind of register.

If the present BJP-led govt. continues on this trajectory (of concretizing a register that creates approx. four million stateless persons) without adequate preparations, plans, dialogues regarding the recognized rights of these human beings, then we will be/are on the brink of utter chaos.

Look at the crimes against women that have been happening during normal peace-time.

As a Supreme court lawyer, a part-time legal consultant for three years for a past United Nations project, and a member of the INC Party since 1998, [ (the Assam Accord was signed by Rajiv Gandhi in 1985), during which time i was in high school, but a supporter of the Congress (S) (which had a large presence in Assam those days), ] I think it is necessary to point out some of these connections, and to point out areas for caution.

The Forest Rights Act is also topical, and could provide a few solutions.

Many of these ideas come together in my latest book, Earth Republic

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