CFF Bharat

Promoting harmony, dialogue, mutual respect & fraternity. Building bridges across communities. #UnityInDiversity

[Ashish Joshi @bismil_prasad]

Citizens of India, Beware , the presumption of Citizenship has been inverted.

For seventy-five years, the state presumed you were a citizen, and had to prove otherwise. Now the burden has been flipped onto you.

No one at the conclave named that reversal more precisely than Dr Niraja Jayal, a scholar of Indian citizenship.

The Constitution and the Citizenship Act of 1955, she reminded the room, were built on the principle of unconditional jus soli — citizenship by birth on the soil. Underlying it was something simpler still: a presumption of belonging.

"The foundational conception of universal, equal citizenship in our Constitution," Jayal said, "was underpinned by a presumption of citizenship. That presumption of universal citizenship is being replaced, as we speak, by a presumption of universal alienage."

Alienage — the presumption that a person is a foreigner until shown otherwise — was, in her account, the thread connecting a set of developments that are usually reported as separate stories.

"It is the principle underlying the NRC. It is the principle underlying the SIR. It is also the principle underlying the latest salvo against passport holders." Each arrives dressed as something routine. "One day it is an amendment to the law on citizenship. Another day it is a new method for the routine task of revising electoral rolls. Yet another day it is a throwaway comment about whether passports constitute proof of citizenship or not. But all of these are tending towards the same purpose, the same objective — the presumption of alienage."

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[CFF Bharat @CFFBharat]

Citizens for Fraternity - Bharat (CFF-Bharat) has written to the President of the BJP expressing concern over reported statements calling for the economic boycott of Indian Muslims and their exclusion from employment and commercial opportunities.

We have requested clarification and appropriate action in the interest of constitutional values, fraternity, equality, and social harmony.

#CFFBharat #Fraternity #ConstitutionalValues #SocialHarmony #UnityInDiversity

[CFF Bharat @CFFBharat]

A meaningful beginning for Citizens for Fraternity - Bharat.

#ParasparataSammelan2026 brought together Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Dr. Najeeb Jung, Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, Shri Ram Lal, Mr. Inderjit Khanna, Mr. Ashok Sharma and Dr. Kavita A. Sharma to discuss harmony, dialogue and fraternity.

155 attendees | 65 membership registrations
Together for Unity. Together for a Better Society.

#CFFBharat #Fraternity #Harmony #UnityInDiversity

[CFF Bharat @CFFBharat]

A meaningful beginning for Citizens for Fraternity - Bharat.

#ParasparataSammelan2026 brought together Shri Ram Bahadur Rai, Dr. Najeeb Jung, Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, Shri Ram Lal, Mr. Inderjit Khanna, Mr. Ashok Sharma and Dr. Kavita A. Sharma to discuss harmony, dialogue and fraternity.

155 attendees | 65 membership registrations
Together for Unity. Together for a Better Society.

#CFFBharat #Fraternity #Harmony #UnityInDiversity