*Communalism Combat **__________________________________________** *** * *HATE HURTS HARMONY WORKS
October 14, 2007
*Open Letter*
Is the Congress Willing to Admit Mass Murderers? What a Cynical Eid Gift for
India's Largest Minority!!!
To,
Smt Sonia Gandhi
President
Congress (I)
Dear Smt Gandhi,
We the undersigned write this letter with anguish and concern. It also
reiterates our earlier concerns express at the time, in Maharashtra, not so
long ago, that your party cheerfully welcomed the vanguard of hate and
divisive politics in the personas of Sanjay Nirupam and thereafter, Narayan
Rane. We had also written to you at that time.
Ma'am, the repeated efforts of some senior Congressmen to exact a win in
Gujarat by *not* standing for any ideology of the erstwhile Congress but to
resort to cheap short term gains by admitting even those men who served Shri
Modi well in 2002 in leading the communal carnage against the state's
Muslims. (Senior Congress leaders have reportedly stated that since hard
core Shiv Sainiks have been welcomed with open arms in Maharashtra why
cannot the Congress not open its arms to mass murderers like Shri Gordhan
Zadaphiya?) . Mr Zadaphiya was at the forefront of the mass carnages against
minorities in the city of Ahmedabad and as home minister responsible for the
shameful state complicity in the genocidal carnage all over the state.
We the undersigned do not believe that you, the seasoned politician that you
are, have not been aware of these brazen moves even within high levels of
the Congress party. We hope and wish to believe that you personally at least
do not share this rather opportunistic brand of politics. We urge that you
speak out, unequivocally on this issue secularism and moral principle just
as strongly as you have on others. We would not like to believe that
secularism is a private concern that can only be voiced behind closed doors.
It needs to find centre stage on the campaign arena in Gujarat.
In hope, and in anticipation,
**
*Teesta Setalvad, Vijay Tendulkar, Prasad Chacko, Fr Cedric Prakash, Alyque
Padamsee, Rahul Bose, Hanif Lakdawala, Javed Anand, Persis Ginwalla, Avinash
Kumar, Rakesh Sharma, Jimmy C. Dabhi, S.J., Anand Patwardhan, Harsh Mander,
Ajay Bhatt, Avani Parekh-Bhatt, Akhil Paul, Ashok Gupta, Jitesh Odedra,
Wilfred D'Costa, Ram Punyani, Kiran Chhokar, Anand Mazgaonkar, Swati Desai,
Sheba George, Vijay Parmar, Vijayprakash Jani, Javed Ameer, Navdeep Mathur,
Shruti Upadhyaya, Atul Raval, Ashfaq Mohammed, Bharat Jhalla, Sushila
Prajapati, Bharat Parmar, Khalid Chaudhary, Beena Jadav, Rais Khan Pathan*
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