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Kerala
An officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kerala, Kannan Gopinathan, resigned from his position in order to freely speak about the oppression of people in Indian Occupied Kashmir , reported The Wire. “It has been 20 days since there has been a lockdown on a whole region with all kinds of restrictions. I cannot remain silent over this even if this means I have to resign from the IAS in order to speak freely and that is what I have done,” he said. The officer stated that the constitution allows for the imposition of a state of emergency if there is aggression within the region, but in Kashmir, it has been imposed as a preemptive measure. People’s freedom has been curtailed on the grounds that if it is not, it will lead to an internal disturbance, he elaborated.