‘End politics of hate’: Over 100 ex-bureaucrats write to PM Modi

More than 100 former civil servants have published to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a hope that he will get in touch with for an stop to what they termed as “politics of hate” allegedly practised “assiduously” by governments beneath BJP’s management. In an open up letter, they mentioned “we are witnessing a frenzy of dislike stuffed destruction in the country where by at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and associates of the other minority communities but the Structure itself”.

Previous Lt Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, previous National Protection Adviser Shivshankar Menon, ex-foreign secretary Sujatha Singh, previous home secretary GK Pillai and previous prime minister Manmohan Singh’s principal secretary TKA Nair are between the 108 signatories to the letter.

“As former civil servants, it is not ordinarily our want to express ourselves in these kinds of serious phrases, but the relentless tempo at which the constitutional edifice created by our founding fathers is staying ruined compels us to speak out and categorical our anger and anguish,” the letter said.

The escalation of detest violence against the minority communities, significantly Muslims, in the last couple of years and months throughout various states – Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, all states in which the BJP is in electric power, barring Delhi (the place the Union govt controls the police) – has obtained a frightening new dimension, it explained.

The previous bureaucrats mentioned they believe that that the menace is unparalleled and at stake is not just constitutional morality and perform it is that the one of a kind syncretic social fabric, “which is our finest civilisational inheritance and which our Constitution is so meticulously built to conserve, is possible to be torn aside”.

“Your silence, in the confront of this massive societal risk, is deafening,” the letter claimed. “We attractiveness to your conscience, taking heart from your assure of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’,” it explained. “It is our fond hope that in this year of ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, rising over partisan concerns, you will get in touch with for an conclude to the politics of despise that governments less than your party’s regulate are so assiduously practising,” reported the letter.