Citizenship Amendment ACT (CAA) - Facts Vs Fiction, Panel Discussion with Community Activists and Consulate General of India

February 01, 2020

Topic: Citizenship Amendment ACT (CAA) - Facts Vs Fiction, Panel Discussion with following
Panelists:
1. Shri Sanjay Panda, Amb Counsul General of India, San Francisco
https://www.cgisf.gov.in/page/amb-profile/
2. Dr. Amrit Nehru, Dentist and founder of Kashmiri Hindu Foundation.
3. Dr. Jashvant Patel, Pain medicine Physician and community activist.
4. Shri Sanmay Mukhopadhyay, Community Activist

BVM Moderator: Dr. Amit Desai

Date/Venue: February 9, 2020 at Cerritos Library 130 PM - 330 PM @ Skyline Room, Cerritos Public Library, 18025 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, CA, 90703

This is a RSVP Only Event, please RSVP at

http://bit.ly/BVM-LA-CAA

Subject:

Recently, the parliament of India passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill on December 11, 2019. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 so that Indian citizenship can be conferred to the persecuted religious minorities such as Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian who sought refuge in India from the neighboring Islamic countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan before December 2014. By the very intent of it, CAA excludes Muslims from these three neighboring Islamic countries since Muslims of these Islamic countries are not subject to religious persecution by their own Islamic States. There has been a wave of protests due to misunderstanding and false propaganda and counter protests all over India.

BV MANCH has invited Consul General of India in San Francisco and several community activists from Southern California in a town hall style discussion moderated by BV MANCH.

About the Panelists:

1. Shri Sanjay Panda, Amb Counsul General of India, San Francisco
https://www.cgisf.gov.in/page/amb-profile/

Ambassador Sanjay Panda is a career diplomat and a member of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS). Amb. Panda took over his new assignment as the Consul General of India in San Francisco on November 14, 2018. Earlier, he was the Indian High Commissioner to Seychelles from August 2014 till November 2016, before returning to India and taking over as Joint Secretary (Indian Ocean Region) in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi.

Sanjay Panda joined the IFS in 1991. He has served at the Indian missions in Brussels (Belgium) during 1993-94; Amman (Jordan) during 1994-1998, Paris (France) during 2001-2004 and Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) during 2004-2008. He was the Deputy Chief of Mission in Tokyo (Japan) from 2010 to 2014 before moving to Seychelles on his assignment as the Head of Mission. His previous assignment at headquarters was as Joint Secretary (East Asia)-II at the Ministry of External Affairs. He has also served as Under Secretary/Deputy Secretary for Nepal at the Foreign Ministry during 1998-2000, and as Director (China) during 2008-2009. He speaks French and several Indian languages.

He is a postgraduate in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Delhi (1983). His professional experience includes working in the private sector as a Management Trainee in Advertising with the Shriram Group in New Delhi. After a two-year stint in the corporate world, he moved over to the public sector joining the state-owned Oriental Insurance Company as Administrative Officer. In 1987, he qualified for the Indian Civil Services and joined the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in New Delhi as Information Officer to the Government of India, before joining the Indian Foreign Service.

2. Dr. Amrit Nehru, Dentist and founder of Kashmiri Hindu Foundation.

Dr Amrit Nehru is a well known community Person, Dentist in private practice who has been working hard for last 30 years in giving correct Indian perspective of Kashmir issues and its terrorism that resulted in violent expulsion of Kashmiri Hindu community which Dr Nehru belongs to. He is one of the founders of well known non profit Kashmiri organization “ Kashmiri Hindu Foundation, Inc." He has spoken extensively for many years on Kashmir, about plight of Kashmiri Hindus and involvement of Pakistan in cross border terrorism.
He is happy about abrogation of article 370 and 35 A. He always would say that it is very simple to delete article 370 and all you need is “ one strong and willing leader “ to do it and in PM Modi, India found one strong leader who tore down the wall that separated Kashmiris with rest of India.

3. Dr. Jashvant Patel, Pain medicine Physician and community activist.

Dr. Jashvant G. Patel is a physiatrist in San Luis Obispo, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Marian Regional Medical Center and Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center. He received his medical degree from B. J. Medical College Ahmedabad and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

4. Shri Sanmay Mukhopadhyay, Community Activist

Sanmay Mukhopadhyay works as Software executive with LA county.He has completed Master of science in yoga and is a Yoga teacher /yoga therapist .Very active in Bharat seva Sangh temple and Bharatiya music and dance academy especially Bengali community.Lives in Brea,California.

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