Ex-bureaucrats criticise Congress over selection of Jammu and Kashmir polls candidate
In 2018, former minister Chaudhary Lal Singh had attended a rally in support of the accused persons in the Kathua rape and murder case.
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The Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants, on Wednesday criticised the Congress for its decision to field former state minister Chaudhary Lal Singh in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections.
The Congress has fielded Singh from Basohli, an Assembly constituency he won in the 2014 polls on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.
The group of former bureaucrats said that while it refrains from commenting on internal matters of political parties and their choice of candidates, it felt compelled to protest against the Congress’ “particularly abominable decision”.
In a letter to Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, the Constitutional Conduct Group said that Singh’s nomination “defied explanation that a party which has taken on itself the mantle of leading the fight against the politics of hate” should choose as its candidate a person who “represented the worst aspects of the politics of hate promoted by the Sangh Parivar”.
“He was one of the most aggressive proponents of majoritarian belligerence that fed its perverse agenda,” the former bureaucrats said.
They added: “In one of the most brazen displays of such perversity, Chaudhary Lal Singh, along with some of his colleagues, had, in April 2018, organised and led a public march in support of the perpetrators of what was probably the most...
