Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Highlight
- More than 100 former bureaucrats wrote to PM Modi
- Former bureaucrats raised the issue of politics of hate in the country
- The signatories said the country was witnessing a frenzy of hatred-filled destruction.
108 former bureaucrats have written an open letter to Narendra Modi urging the Prime Minister to end the politics of hate in the country.
In the letter, the signatories said the country is witnessing a frenzy of hate-filled destruction where not only Muslims and members of other minority communities are at the altar of sacrifice, but also the Constitution itself.
Prominent names who signed the letter include former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, former Home Secretary GK Pillai and TKA Nair, Principal Secretary to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
“As former civil servants, normally we do not wish to express ourselves in such extreme terms, but the constant speed with which the constitutional edifice built by our founding fathers is being destroyed makes us speak and Forces to express his anger and pain.” read the letter
He also said that in several BJP-ruled states like Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, in the last few years, the increase in hate violence against minority communities, especially Muslims, has acquired a scary facelift. Have done. Dimensions.
Urging the Prime Minister, the letter said, “We appeal to your conscience, take heart from your promise of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’.
He said, “Our hope is that in this year of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, rising above partisan views, you will give a call to end the politics of hate that the governments controlled by your party are working so hard. “