“Frenzy of Hate Mayhem…”: Former bureaucrats write to PM Modi
More than a hundred former bureaucrats have written to PM Narendra Modi, expressing hope that he will call for an end to the ‘politics of hate’ and has reportedly been implemented in governments controlled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The emphasis is being ‘hardly’. In an open letter, the former bureaucrat said, “We are witnessing a frenzy of hate-filled devastation in a country where not only Muslims and members of other minority communities are at the altar of sacrifice, but also the Constitution.”
The letter has been signed by 108 people and includes former Delhi Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung, former National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon, former Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, former Home Secretary GK Pillai and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s principal secretary TKA Nair.
“As former public servants, we generally do not wish to express ourselves in such sharp words, but the speed with which the constitutional edifice built by our forefathers is being destroyed is being destroyed,” the letter said. Forces us to speak up and express our anger and pain.
The letter said that in the past few years and months, in several states – Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the increase in hatred and violence against minority communities, especially Muslims, has taken a frightening new dimension. has achieved. It has been said in the letter that except Delhi, there is a BJP government in these states and the police in Delhi is controlled by the central government.
The former officials have said in the letter, “We appeal to your conscience to take to heart your promise of Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas… It is our hope that in this year of the Amrit Mahotsav of Azadi, Rising above partisan views, you will call for an end to the politics of hate.
