"We Appeal To Your Conscience, End Politics Of Hate": 108 Ex-Bureaucrats Urge PM Modi In Letter
Amid the growing communal tensions across several states in India, 108 former bureaucrats have written an open letter to Narendra Modi, urging the Prime Minister to end the politics of hate in the country.
Former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, ex-Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, former Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's Principal Secretary TKA. Nair were among the prominent names who signed the letter.
Compelled to speak out??
"As former civil servants, it is not normally our want to express ourselves in such extreme terms, but the relentless pace at which the constitutional edifice created by our founding fathers is being destroyed compels us to speak out and express our anger and anguish," the letter read.
The signatories said the country is witnessing a frenzy of hate-filled destructions where at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and members of the other minority communities, but the Constitution itself.
They also said that the escalation of hate violence against the minority communities, particularly Muslims, in the last few years in many BJP-ruled states such as Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has acquired a scary new dimension.
End politics of hate?
Urging the Prime Minister, the letter said, "We appeal to your conscience, taking heart from your promise of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas'.
"It is our fond hope that in this year of 'Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav', rising above partisan considerations, you will call for an end to the politics of hate that governments under your party's control are so assiduously practising."
Several states in India including the national capital had witnessed communally charged incidents in the past few weeks during the Hanuman Jayanti and Ram Navami celebrations.
Houses and other buildings owned by Muslims were also targeted in states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi in the name of anti-encroachment drives.?
In Karnataka, several fringe groups have been pushing for an economic boycott of Muslims.
There have also been several instances in the recent past where communally charged calls were made against Muslims.
SC pulls up Uttarakhand?
The Supreme Court had on Tuesday voiced concern that incidents of hate speeches keep occurring in the country despite its guidelines on preventive measures to be taken by government authorities.
Following this, prohibitory orders under CRPC section 144 have been enforced in Dada Jalalpur village near Uttarakhand's Roorkee where a 'Hindu Mahapanchayat' was scheduled to be held on Wednesday and 33 people associated with the event have been detained.
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