KOLKATA: As many as 101 former bureaucrats, including Anita Agnihotri, Jawhar Sircar, M N Roy and Trilochan Singh from the Bengal cadre, have written an open letter to chief ministers of all states on the
harassment
of Muslims amid the Covid-19 crisis.
The letter has been copied to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The civil servants, uniting under the banner of the Constitutional Conduct Group wrote: “It is with much anguish that we bring to your attention reports of harassment of Muslims in some parts of the country, particularly following the meeting of the
Tablighi Jamaat in March in the Nizamuddin area of New Delhi. “The Jamaat was criticized for ignoring the principles of social distancing when cases of Covid-19 had started emerging in the country,” it read.
They requested the chief ministers to ask all public functionaries to be particularly vigilant “to prevent social boycott of any community”.
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