Days after a bunch of ex-civil servants wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over “politics of hate”, one other set of former judges and bureaucrats slammed them, alleging their letter was a political and anti-Modi-government train taken by them periodically to form public opinion towards the ruling dispensation.
Calling itself ‘Concerned Citizens’, the group stated it doesn’t imagine the open letter to Modi by the Constitutional Conduct Group (CCG) — the title of the affiliation of former bureaucrats — had “sincere motivations”. They stated the letter was the group’s method to set free its frustration towards the general public opinion which stays “solidly behind Modi”, and cited BJP’s current election wins.
Former Sikkim High Court chief justice Permod Kohli, former overseas secretaries Kanwal Sibbal and Shashank, and former RAW chief Sanjeev Tripathi are among the many eight ex-judges, 97 former bureaucrats, and 92 former armed forces officers who’ve signed the open letter written to Modi to counter the CCG letter signed by 108 former bureaucrats.
“Their ‘anger and anguish’ is not only empty virtue-signaling, they are actually fuelling the politics of hate they seek to combat by attempting to engineer hate against the present government with their patent prejudices and false portrayals,” stated ‘Concerned Citizens’.
“That these open letters repeat the same language, have the same tenor and use biased terms with clear ideological moorings speaks for itself.”
The group tried to attract consideration in the direction of a “striking similarity between the phraseology of the CCG missives and utterances in the western media or by western agencies” questioning the group’s intent. It additionally known as out its alleged “silence” on post-poll violence in West Bengal.
“It lays bare their cynical and unprincipled approach to issues,” the Modi-defending group stated. “The same attitude shapes their reactions (or rather the lack of any reaction) to the multiple violent incidents in various states ruled by different political parties and targeted violation of human rights adversely affecting the livelihoods of the poor irrespective of their religion,” it stated.
The ex-judges and bureaucrats alleged that the “studied omissions” of the CCG had uncovered it. They additionally claimed that the situations of main communal violence have “palpably” decreased underneath the BJP authorities, which has been appreciated by the general public.
“This has instigated groups like the CCG to highlight beyond proportion sporadic instances of communal violence that no society can entirely eradicate,” it stated.
The 108 former civil servants had written to Modi, urging him to name for an finish to what they termed a “politics of hate” allegedly practised “assiduously” by the governments underneath BJP’s management. In an open letter, they’d stated, “we are witnessing a frenzy of hate filled destruction in the country where at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and members of the other minority communities but the Constitution itself”.
In the counter-letter, the ‘Concerned Citizens’ group suggested the previous civil servants towards “orchestrating a false narrative of colourable use of state power”. It alleged that the opposite group’s actual intention is to foster a counter-narrative towards the “premeditated attacks on peaceful processions during Hindu festivals, be it in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat or New Delhi”. It accused the group of getting “double standards”, creating a difficulty out of “non-issues”, and having a “distorted thinking”.
The group alleged that the CCG’s try to “resort to bloated vocabulary to grab international attention, motivated tirades against the democratically elected governments” was a “malaise of our society”. It additionally alleged that the current controversies referring to hijab and halal certification amongst others was the work of “vested interests” that needed to maintain alive the narrative of “Muslim persecution” and “Hindu majoritarianism and Hindu nationalism” underneath the BJP.
“Such a narrative gets recognition and encouragement from international lobbies that want to halt India’s progress,” it claimed.
“The so-called intellectuals, the same set of retired civil servants and their backend international lobbies seek to capitalize on this narrative to create political and social fissures in India and weaken the country from within on the pretext that they are serving some higher constitutional cause when they are serving their own egos,” it stated.
The group suggested the CCG to free itself from its “personal biases and propose viable solutions”, and requested it to not “spread fear and falsehoods, seeking to fan the flames of religion-based separatism and even balkanization”.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”