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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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