101 ex-bureaucrats urge Amit Shah to act against ‘majoritarian aggression’ in Uttarakhand
The group also demanded the arrest of Hindutva leader Yati Narsinghanand, who was recently booked in several states for hate speech targeting Muslims.
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A group of 101 former civil servants, organised under the banner of the Constitutional Conduct Group, wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday expressing concern over the recent trend of “majoritarian aggression and belligerence” in Uttarakhand and urged him to act against those inciting hatred and violence against religious minorities.
The group said that systematic efforts have been made to “create new nurseries of hate” that can transform the peaceful region into a “breeding ground for aggressive Hindutva”.
“On September 10, 2024, a hate speech was made in the Dehradun Press Club claiming that a ‘dharma sansad’ will be organised in December 2024,” the group wrote. “It may be recalled that a ‘dharma sansad’ was organized in Haridwar in December 2021, in which a series of genocidal speeches demanded the mass killings and mass rape of Indian Muslims. The call for another ‘dharma sansad’ has now been made by many of the same individuals and Hindus have been asked to arm themselves and treat members of the minority community as ‘enemies of humanity’”.
The former civil servants pointed out that Uttarakhand has recently witnessed attacks and hate speech against minorities in several locations including Chauras, Dehradun, Srinagar, Berinag, Uttarkashi, Karnaprayag, Nandnagar, Tharali, Tilwada, Gauchar,...
