Over100 ex-bureaucrats oppose CAA, NPR, NRC

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, January 9

Opposing the CAA, NPR and NRC, more than 100 former bureaucrats from the All-India and Central Services today gave a call to pressurise the Union Government into taking “corrective measures.”

Voicing their concerns under the aegis of the Constitutional Conduct Group, former civil servants, in an open letter, also contradicted government’s position that the three were not linked.

Besides CAA’s scrapping, they want the government to withdraw the Foreigners (Tribunals) Amendment Order, 2019 and rollback of plan to construct detention camps.

The group include former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, former Foreign Secretary and former National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon, former Chief Information Commissioner Wajahat Habibullah, former Punjab Governor’s Adviser Julio Ribero, former Haryana Secretary MG Devasahayam and former Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Rahul Khullar. “The statute that consciously excludes the Muslim religion from its purview is bound to give rise to apprehensions,” they said.

Stressing that CAA, NPR and NRIC are linked, they said that NPR has nothing to do with Census of India.