The Telegraph Suhas Chakma said centre must be open to discussion on CAA once again in next session of Parliament Think tank organisation, Rights and Risks Analysis Group’s director Suhas Chakma on Monday said the Centre must scrap the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) as it is not even helpful for the beneficiaries. Chakma stressed that […]
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Citizenship Amendment Act is unconstitutional, may sow seeds of ethno-nationalism in North East, says prominent analyst Suhas Chakma
Firstpost As the new year approaches, the country continues to witness large-scale protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act and the National Register of Citizens. Suhas Chakma, Director of the Rights and Risks Analysis Group, spoke on these issues in detail in an interview with Firstpost. He fears that the Indian government has planted the seeds […]
UN meets round the year, DNA
Available at Daily News and AnalysisWritten by Suhas Chakma, Director, Rights & Risks Analysis Group India has to guard against international scrutiny on Jammu & Kashmir, which has begun now Since the abrogation of Article 370 and the subsequent lockdown of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), India has been under intense scrutiny at the national and […]
Hurting Indians without papers, Daily News & Analysis
The National Register of Citizens (NRC) of Assam published on August 31 has excluded over 19 lakh people. Though the details are yet unknown, about one lakh Nepalis, an equal number of Scheduled Tribes, who are the original inhabitants of Assam, and over 10 lakh Bengali Hindus have been excluded from the NRC. The remaining […]
Rights group terms it largest incident of making people ‘stateless’ in decades
The HinduPublished on 31 August 2019SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A New Delhi-based rights group has termed the exclusion of 19,06,657 people from the Assam National Register of Citizens (NRC) as the largest incident of making people “stateless” in decades. Sri Lanka’s 1948 declaration of about 9,75,000 descendants of Indian-origin Tamils as ‘non-nationals is the next largest purging move’, the […]
1 Year And Counting, Still No Bail For Activists Jailed After Bhima Koregaon Violence, NDTV
NDTVPUBLISHED ON: AUGUST 29, 2019 It has now been well over a year since the activists arrested after the Bhima Koregaon violence were put in jail, apparently because they conspired to attack the Prime Minister or lead Maoist terror attacks. For one year all of these activists – scholars, lawyers, teachers and others – have […]
NRC data release stokes fire, The Telegraph
Congress, rights body flay Dispur move The Telegraph Published 3.08.19 By A Staff Reporter in Guwahati Dispur has triggered a controversy by revealing “sensitive” district-wise break-up of people not included in the complete draft NRC published last year.The Congress and a rights group, Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RAAG), on Friday said the revelation of the data by […]
Citizenship Project: BJP’s Dangerous Game?, NDTV
NDTV PUBLISHED ON: AUGUST 1, 2019 Unsatisfied with the number of inclusions in the current NRC draft list, the BJP government in Assam has released sensitive data, submitted to the Supreme Court in a sealed cover, in the state Assembly. The BJP government argues that the NRC process has been too lenient and more people […]
Press Release: 2,955 police encounter deaths registered during 1998-2018, RRAG calls for national commission of inquiry into encounter deaths
New Delhi: In the wake of fake encounter death of 38-year-old Vivek Tiwari, Apple area manager in early in the morning of 29 September 2018 in Lucknow’s posh Gomti Nagar area, the Rights and Risks Analysis Group (RRAG) in press release today stated in the last two decades i.e. from 1 April 1998 to 31 […]
Is activist lobby EXPOSED after Bhima Koregaon verdict? | The Newshour Debate
Times Now The Newshour Debate Published on Sep 28, 2018 On the back of a crucial SC verdict putting ‘desh droh’ under the lens and unmasking the designs of the lobby that sought to slander the state and the media. Does SC’s verdict underline that ‘dissent’ is not absolute? Is the verdict by the SC […]