New Delhi:  More than 100 former All India Service bureaucrats urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to end the politics of hate in the country. Nearly 108 former bureaucrats wrote an open letter to Modi saying that the country is witnessing a frenzy of hate-filled destructions where at the sacrificial altar are not just Muslims and members of the other minority communities, but the Constitution itself. We appeal to your conscience, taking heart from your promise of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas.

Former Lieutenant Governor of Delhi Najeeb Jung, former National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, ex-Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh, former Home Secretary G.K. Pillai and former Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh’s Principal Secretary T.K.A. Nair were among the prominent names who signed the letter.

As former civil servants, it is not normally our want 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. They also said that the escalation of hate violence against the minority communities, particularly Muslims, in the last few years in many BJP-ruled states such as Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand has acquired a scary new dimension.