An Open Appeal to India’s Security Forces: Stand with Democratic Dissent
An Open Appeal to India’s Security Forces: Stand with Democratic Dissent Posted on 9th October, 2026 (GMT 06:55 hrs) ABSTRACT On 10 October 2026, as unarmed citizens, students and opposition voices gather at Jantar Mantar in peaceful civil disobedience, the State has assembled more than 40,000 Delhi Police and Central Armed Police Forces personnel, detention centres, facial-recognition cameras and metro closures against them. Once in a Blue Moon Academia appeals to those in uniform, not as adversaries but as fellow citizens, to let conscience precede command, to refuse the police state the last word, and to stand with the constitutional right to dissent. Once in a Blue Moon Academia (OBMA), committed to a moneyless, partyless democratic commons, stands in solidarity with the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), the opposition, youth and women who are, at this hour, courageously resisting and confronting the BJP-RSS and the mechanisms of fascist domination through which the present rulin...