Daijiworld Media Network - Mangaluru

Mangaluru, Dec 10: IAS officer S Sasikanth Senthil, who resigned from civil services, has called National Register of Citizens (NRC) as a ‘dehumanizing effort.’

In a strongly worded letter to Home Minister Amit Shah, the former Dakshina Kannada DC said that the passage of the CAB “marked the darkest day in the history of modern India.”

In his letter, he wrote, “I refuse to accept the process of enumeration in NRC by not submitting the requisite documents to prove my citizenship and is willing to accept the action taken by the India state against my disobedience. If the state chooses to declare me as a non-citizen, I would also be happy to fill up the many detention centers that you are building all over the country. I would accept the incarceration with all humbleness than to wait at the sidelines as a mute spectator to the communal profiling and disenfranchising of my fellow humans,” Senthil stated.

Addressing the Home Minister, Senthil wrote, “Your vehement defence of the bill on the floor of the house revealed a lot about the core ideology of hatred that drives your government. I feel completely ashamed that as a country that we have let down our Muslim and Adivasi brothers and sisters and have not succeeded in assuaging their fears about the secular ethos of the country.”

I should remind that irrespective of the status of the CAB the idea of an all India NRC by itself is a dehumanizing effort. We as people of this country should now stand up for all the marginalized. Annexed is my letter to the Home minister. It is Time to Act.#CABNRCSatyagraha pic.twitter.com/nhxrWEz8SS

— sashikanth senthil (@s_kanth) 10 December 2019

“The passing of this bill in the Lok Sabha has left a deep scar in the belief of already marginalized people and along with the NRC is surely an attempt to profile Muslims and Adivasis akin to the Asiatic Registration Act in South Africa and the Nuremberg laws of Germany,” he added.

NRC and CAB need to be fought tooth and nail. What better way than the Gandhian satyagraha. The Government cannot force us to cooperate with the process. Let us stand up #CABNRCSatyagraha @naukarshah @kavita_krishnan @savukku @dineshswamy92 pic.twitter.com/eGZmDts4ca

— sashikanth senthil (@s_kanth) 10 December 2019

“As a former civil servant, I would advise you to increase the capacity of your detention centers, as many of us would fill it up before you succeed in your agenda. In the coming days you would realize that this country is the making of people who would stand up for one another and would fight every attempt by any authority to divide us. You would have to move through some of us who would stand in the front to stall your progress at unleashing atrocities towards the marginalized. So keep your strategy ready. Jai hind.” Senthil concluded.