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Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File) A group of 108 former bureaucrats on Tuesday in a three-page letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over “ escalation of violence against the minority communities, particularly Muslims” across several “BJP-ruled states” that poses threat to the constitutional edifice as the state governments appear to be fully complicit in the current state of affairs.
“As former civil servants, it is not normally our wont 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 escalation of hate violence against the minority communities, particularly Muslims, in the last few years and months across several states – Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, all states in which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in power, barring Delhi (where the union government controls the police) – has acquired a frightening new dimension,” states the letter written to the PM on Tuesday.
Julio Ribeiro, Ravi Buddhiraja, V P Raja, Meeran Borwankar and Anna Dani are some of the bureaucrats from Maharashtra who are signatories to the letter.
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