Communal tensions have shaken confidence of religious minorities, citizens’ group tells PM Modi
The group called on the prime minister to ensure that the chief ministers and their administrations adhere to the letter of the law, and the Constitution.
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Communal tensions in the country have shaken the confidence of religious minorities, a group of prominent citizens said in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.
“It is abundantly clear that over the last decade relations between communities, particularly Hindus and Muslims, and to an extent Christians are extremely strained leaving these latter two communities in extreme anxiety and insecurity,” read the letter.
The citizens’ group said that while the country had faced riots in the past, the incidents of the last 10 years were “markedly different” as they show the “clearly partisan role” of several state governments and their administrative machinery.
“This, we believe, is unprecedented,” the group said. “What started as incidents of bullying or beating up Muslim youth on charges of carrying beef, grew into lynchings of innocent people within their homes, followed by Islamophobic hate speeches with clearly genocidal intent.”
The group said that there have been calls in the recent past for the boycott of Muslim businesses, eateries, non-renting of premises to members of the community and “unrestrained bulldozing of Muslim homes at the behest of chief ministers themselves led by a ruthless local administration”.
Such activities are “truly unprecedented and has shaken the confidence not just of these minorities but indeed of all...
