On November 8, the government revoked Taseer’s OCI card, accusing him of concealing the fact that his late father Salmaan Taseer was a Pakistani national.
The letter says "We write to respectfully request that the Indian government review this decision, to ensure that Aatish Taseer has access to his childhood home and family, and that other writers are not similarly targeted."
I have to say that I am truly horrified that this was done without my even being given a hearing. Of course, as the BJP’s Twitter trolls tell me gleefully, I could go to court.
The fact that the government cited Taseer’s “Pakistan origins” to revoke his OCI card despite him being raised by his mother sits at odds with the BJP-led government’s moves towards progressively liberalising the passport rules about a single parent.
The 38-year-old also said that the Indian government's move was "symptomatic of a much larger movement", and compared his "exile" to the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and the National Register of Citizens in Assam.
A spokesperson for the Union Home Ministry Thursday said that Aatish Taseer, while submitting his PIO application, “concealed the fact of Pak origin of his late father”.
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