Retired IIT Professor’s solitary campaign against the National Register of Citizens: Listen to VK Tripathi

On Monday Professor (Rtd) V.K. Tripathi, who taught Physics in IIT, Delhi , could be seen distributing pamphlets and explaining to bystanders why the amended Citizenship Act is anti-people.

He had earlier gone around the national capital explaining why the country should have stood by Kashmiris. He would go around distributing pamphlets opposing the abrogation of Article 370. He was heckled and abused by some while others snatched the pamphlets he had printed for distribution to bystanders.

The former academic, in his seventies, was on Monday seen painstakingly explain why the amended Citizenship Act was flawed. The Government, the pamphlet he held out alleged, was acting like the colonial British rulers by demanding that the entire population should prove they are Indian citizens.

To catch a thief, it said, the Government cannot ask an entire population to prove that they are not thieves. The pamphlet points out that the Citizenship Amendment Act and the NRC together would set the entire population on a wild goose chase for documents. Many of the people, by virtue of the circumstances of their birth and upbringing, would not be able to produce the documents, he explained to those who engaged in a conversation with him.

Watch the video and read the document the professor (Rtd) held out on Monday.