More than 270 concerned citizens condemn the recent incidents of hate speech in Haridwar

We will not remain silent when we hear hate speech

05.01.2022

We, citizens of India from various walks of life, would like to condemn in unequivocal terms the hate speeches and the call for genocide of Muslims made between December 17 and 19, 2021, in Haridwar. These speeches and appeals to kill a community were made by Hindutva-oriented organisations and individuals. Such outrageous behaviour is in complete violation of law and the Indian Constitution. Instead of taking immediate and exemplary action against the perpetrators, public authorities have reacted in a tepid manner and are seeking to whitewash these events.

76 Supreme Court lawyers have written to the Chief Justice of India, asking him to take suo moto cognizance of the matter and requesting him to “issue directions for taking action against the guilty persons under Sections 120 B, 121 A, 124 A, 153 A, 153 B, 295 A and 298 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.”

In similar vein, we request the public authorities in Delhi and Uttarakhand to take action as per law. Otherwise, the idea of India as a constitutional democracy with fundamental rights and secularism as part of the basic structure of the Constitution will no longer have any meaning and India as we know it may cease to exist. The parallels with what happened in Nazi Germany are chilling: to remain silent or inactive in the face of such abominable speeches is to be complicit in crimes against humanity.

Read the statement in Hindi here.

1 A. Selvaraj, IRS (Retd.) 138 Mohammed Ahsan, IFoS (Retd)
2 A.K. Samanta, IPS (Retd.) 139 Mohini Mullick, Professor (Retd.), IIT
3 A.S. Dulat, IPS (Retd.) 140 Mridula Mukherjee, Professor (Retd.), JNU, New Delhi
4 Abdul Khan, Secretary, LIC Workers’ Association, Karnataka 141 N.C. Saxena, IAS (Retd.)
5 Abeed Khan, National Secretary, Rahstra Seva Dal 142 N.K. Raghupathy, IAS (Retd.)
6 Abha Sur 143 Nachiket Udupa, MKSS
7 Abhay Kanta, Writer-Journalist, Bombay 144 Najeeb Jung, IAS (Retd.)
8 Abhijit Sengupta, IAS (Retd.) 145 Nandita Das, Film-maker and actor
9 Abhijit Vaidya, Founder, Arogya Sena, Pune 146 Nandan Dasgupta, Citizen
10 Achin Vanaik, Professor (Retd), New Delhi 147 Nandita Narain, Democratic Teachers’ Front.
11 Aditi Mehta, IAS (Retd.) 148 Narendra Sisodia, IAS (Retd.)
12 Aditya Bhushan, Director of a BPO 149 Nareshwar Dayal, IFS (Retd.)
13 Aditya Mukherjee, Professo (Retd.), JNU, New Delhi 150 Navrekha Sharma, IFS (Retd.)
14 Aditya Vikram 151 Neena Vyas, Citizen
15 Admiral (Retd.) L Ramdas, Former Chief of Naval Staff 152 Neera Burra, Citizen
16 Aftab Seth, IFS (Retd.) 153 Neera Chandhoke, Distinguished Fellow Centre For Equity Studies
17 Air Marshal (Retd.) Vir Narain 154 Nilova Roychowdhury, Journalist
18 Ajai Vikram Singh, IAS (Retd.) 155 Nisha Grover, Educationist, Baroda
19 Ajay Singh Mehta 156 Nitin Desai
20 Akhil Chaudhary, Advocate, Rajasthan High Court 157 Nitin Vaidya, Film-maker, Bombay
21 Amitabh Mathur, IPS (Retd.) 158 Norma Alvares (Padmasri), Advocate, Bombay High Court at Goa
22 Amitabha Pande , IAS (Retd.) 159 OP Meena, IAS (Retd.)
23 Ammu Joseph, Writer 160 P. Joy Oommen, IAS (Retd.)
24 Amrita Dasgupta, Citizen 161 P.A. Nazareth, IFS (Retd.)
25 Anand Arni, RAS (Retd.) 162 P.M.S. Malik, IFS (Retd.)
26 Anil Nauriya, Advocate, Supreme Court of India 163 P.R. Dasgupta, IAS (Retd.)
27 Anil Sadgopal, All India Forum for Right to Education 164 P.S.S. Thomas, IAS (Retd.)
28 Anindyo Roy, Professor Emeritus 165 Pamela Philipose, Journalist, New Delhi
29 Anjali Ambedkar, Trustee, Rashtra Seva Dal, Maharashtra 166 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Journalist
30 Anna Dani , IAS (Retd.) 167 Parveen Talha, IRS (Retd.)
31 Annie Raja, National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) 168 Parvez Hayat, IPS (Retd.)
32 Ansar Ahmed, IFoS (Retd) 169 Pervin Jahangir
33 Anup Thakur, IAS (Retd.) 170 PK Ghosh,IAS (Retd.)
34 Apar Gupta, Advocate 171 Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus, JNU, New Delhi
35 Ardhendu Sen, IAS (Retd.) 172 Pradeep K. Deb, IAS (Retd.)
36 Arif Ghauri, IRS (Retd.) 173 Pradnya Daya Pawar, Poet-Academic, Bombay
37 Arjun Kokate, President, Rashtra Seva Dal, Maharashtra 174 Pramod Munghate, Academic, Nagpur
38 Aruna Roy, IAS (Resigned) 175 Prashant Kothadia, Social activist, Pune
39 Arundhati Dhuru, National Alliance of People’s Movements 176 Preeti Sampat, Academic
40 Asha Dey 177 Prof R. Sudarshan, JSGP
41 Asha Dutia, Couple and Family Therapist 178 Prof Subhashis Banerjee, IIT
42 Ashim Jain 179 Prof. G Haragopal, Telangana Civil Liberties Committee
43 Ashish Ranjan, Jan Jagaran Shakti Sangathan 180 Pushpa Sundar, Citizen
44 Ashok Kumar Sharma, IFoS (Retd.) 181 R. Chandramohan, IAS (Retd.)
45 Ashok Kumar Sharma, IFS (Retd.) 182 R. Poornalingam, IAS (Retd.)
46 Ashraf Ali, Educationist, Kunnur, Kerala 183 R.M. Premkumar, IAS (Retd.)
47 Atul Deshmukh, National Secretary, Rashtra Seva Dal, Nagpur 184 Rachel Chatterjee, IAS (Retd.)
48 Aurobindo Behera, IAS (Retd.) 185 Ragini Ahuja, Advocate
49 Avdhesh Kumar Singh, IFoS (Retd) 186 Rahat Unnisa, Educationist, Dharwad, Karnataka
50 Avinash Mohananey, IPS (Retd.) 187 Raja Kandalkar, Secretary, Rashtra Seva Dal, Aaharashtra
51 Ayesha Kidwai, JNU 188 Rajagopal P V
52 B.B. Mahajan, IAS (Retd.) 189 Rajan Khan, President, Akshar Manav, Writer, Pune
53 Baba Adhav, Hamal Panchyat, Pune 190 Rajdeep Puri, IRS (Resigned)
54 Badri Raina, Author and columnist 191 Rajendran Narayanan, Azim Premji University
55 Bela Bhatia 192 Rajesh Prasad, IFS (Retd.)
56 Bhagvanji Bhai Raiyani, Forum for Fast Justice 193 Rajiv Khandelwal, Co-founder, Aajeevika Bureau
57 Bhanwar Meghwanshi 194 Ram Puniyani, Communal Harmony Activist, Bombay
58 Bharat Dogra 195 Ram Puniyani, National Solidarity Forum
59 Bharat Sasne, IAS (Retd.), President Marathi Sahitya Sammelan 196 Ramani Atkuri, Public Health Specialist
60 Brijesh Kumar , IAS (Retd.) 197 Ramani Venkatesan, IAS (Retd.)
61 Brinda Dubey, Citizen 198 Ramesh Bajaj, Citizen
62 C R Neelakandan 199 Ranesh Ray
63 Chandrashekhar Balakrishnan , IAS (Retd.) 200 Rani Day, Animation filmmaker
64 Claude Alvares, Director, the Goa Foundation, Goa 201 Ranjana Ray
65 D L Tripathi, PUCL Ajmer 202 Rashmi Chaturvedi, Kanoria College, Jaipur
66 D.M.Sukthankar, IAS (Retd.) 203 Ravi Budhiraja, IAS (Retd.)
67 Dakshin Chhara, Film maker-dramatist, Gujarat 204 Ravi Srivastava, Professor, JNU, Delhi (Retd.)
68 Datta Naik, President, Dakshinayan, Goa 205 Ravi Vira Gupta, IAS (Retd.)
69 Deb Mukharji, IFS (Retd.) 206 Rekha Bezboruah
70 Debmalya Nandy, Concerned Citizen 207 Rekha Choudhari, Tribal activist, Gujarat
71 Deep Joshi 208 Revathi Narayanan, Independent Consultant Gender and Development
72 Deepak Sanan, IAS (Retd.) 209 Richa Audichya, Jan Chetna Sansthan
73 Dileep Sarawgi, Citizen 210 Right to Food Campaign
74 Dileep Simeon, Citizen 211 Rima Choudhary, Rashtra Seva Dal, Assam
75 Dr Urmila Pingle, Citizen 212 Rudi Warjri, IFS (Retd.)
76 Dr V Rukmini Rao, Citizen 213 S G Vasudev, Artist
77 Dr. Ashok Sahni, Professor Emeritus, Punjab University 214 S R Hiremath, President, Citizens For Democracy
78 Dr. Dhiraj Mohan Banerjee, Former Professor, Delhi University 215 S. Satyabhama, IAS (Retd.)
79 Dr. Vandana Prasad, Community Pediatrician and Public Health Professional 216 S.K. Guha, IAS (Retd.),
80 DS Ranga Rao, Assistant Director (Retd.), MHA 217 S.P. Ambrose , IAS (Retd.)
81 EAS Sarma, IAS (Retd) 218 Saheli Women’s Resource Centre, New Delhi
82 F.T.R. Colaso, IPS (Retd.) 219 Salahuddin Ahmad, IAS (Retd.)
83 Faisal Khan, President, Khudai Khidmatgar, Uttar Pradesh 220 Sambhaji Bhagat, Manuski-chi Shaalaa, Bombay
84 Flavia Agnes, Founder Trustee, Majlis, Legal Centre Mumbai 221 Sandeep Pandey, Socialist Party
85 G. Balachandhran, IAS (Retd.) 222 Sandesh Bhandare, President, Dakshinayan, Maharashtra
86 G.K. Pillai, IAS (Retd.) 223 Satwant Reddy , IAS (Retd.)
87 G.N Devy, National President, Rashtra Seva Dal 224 Satya Narayan Mohanty, IAS (Retd.)
88 Gabriele Dietrich, NAPM 225 Sevanti Ninan, Journalist
89 Gautam Mukhopadhaya, IFS (Retd.) 226 Shailesh Gandhi, Former Central Information Commissioner
90 Gautam Sonti, Independent documentary film-maker 227 Shankar Halgatti, Secretary, Vidya Vardhak sangh, Karnataka
91 Githa Hariharan, Writer 228 Sharad Behar, IAS (Retd.)
92 Gladwin Momin, Rashtrea Seva Dal, Meghalaya 229 Sharda Prasad, IAS (Retd.)
93 Gopalan Balagopal, IAS (Retd.) 230 Shiv Shankar Mukherjee, IFS (Retd.)
94 Gurjit Singh Cheema, IAS (Retd.) 231 Shiv Visvanathan
95 H.S. Gujral, IFoS (Retd.) 232 Shivshankar Menon, IFS (Retd.)
96 Harlal Bairwa 233 Shubha Jindel, PUCL Rajasthan
97 Harsh Mander, IAS (Retd.) 234 Shyam Saran, IFS (Retd.)
98 Hindal Tyabji, IAS (Retd.) 235 Siddharth Pandey, Sports Broadcaster
99 Hukam Chand, IFoS (Retd) 236 Siraj Hussain, IAS (Retd.)
100 Ibrahim Afghan, Media person, Aurangabad 237 Snehalata Gupta, Citizen
101 Inamul Hasan, NAPM 238 Sonalini Mirchandani, IFS (Resigned)
102 Indu Prakash Singh, City Makers Mission International 239
Subhas Lomte, NCCRW( National Campaign Committee for Rural Workers)
103 Ish Kumar, IPS (Retd.) 240 Subhash R. Shah, Citizen
104 Jagdeep S Chhokar, Professor (Retd) 241 Subhash Ware, Mass leader-Constitutional Conduct Activist, Pune
105 Janaki Nair, Professor (Retd.) JNU, New Delhi 242 Subodh Lal, IPoS (Resigned)
106 Jayant Joshi, Musician-Painter, Pune 243 Sudeshna Sengupta, Independent Consultant and Researcher
107 Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. 244 Sudhir Kumar, IAS (Retd.)
108 Jharna acharya, President, Rashtra Seva Dal, West Bengal 245 Sujatha Singh, IFS (Retd.)
109 John Dayal, Writer and activist 246 Sukhdeo Thorat, Professor Emeritus, JNU, New Delhi
110 Jugal Mohapatra, IAS (Retd.) 247 Sukumar Muralidharan, Journalist
111 Julio Ribeiro, IPS (Retd.), Former Adviser to Governor of Punjab & Former Ambassador to Romania 248 Sumir Hinduja
112 Justice (Retd.) Anjana Prakash, Former Judge Patna High Court 249 Sundar Burra , IAS (Retd.)
113 Justice (Retd.) AP Shah, Former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court 250 Surekha Devi, Srujani Women’s Association, Karnataka
114 K. Sujatha Rao, IAS (Retd.) 251 Suresh K. Goel, IFS (Retd.),
115 K.M. Chandrasekhar, IAS (Retd.) 252 Sushil Dubey , IFS (Retd.)
116 K.P. Fabian, IFS (Retd.) 253 Swapna Guha, Citizen
117 K.V. Bhagirath, IFS (Retd.) 254 T M Krishna, Musician and Author
118 Kalyani Chaudhuri , IAS (Retd.) 255 T Vijayendra, Ecologise Hyderabad
119 Kalyani Menon Sen, Independent researcher 256 T.K. Banerji, IAS (Retd.)
120 Kamal Jaswal, IAS (Retd.) 257 Tara Ajai Singh, IAS (Retd.)
121 Kavitha Kuruganti, Farmer’s rights activist 258 Tripurari Sharma
122 Koninika Ray, National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) 259 Utsa Patnaik, Professor Emerita, JNU, New Delhi
123 KPM Perrumahl, IFoS (Retd) 260 Uttam Parmar, Educationist, Gujarat
124 L.L. Mehrotra, IFS (Retd.) 261 Uttara Dasgupta, ex-SBI
125 Lakshmi Krishnamurty, Alarippu 262 V.P. Raja, IAS (Retd.)
126 Lakshmikant Deshmukh, Former President, Marathi Sahitya Sammelan 263 Vandana Mahajan, Independent feminist and development practitioner
127 Lalit Mathur, Former Director General National Institute of Rural Development, GoI. 264 Vappala Balachandran, IPS (Retd.)
128 M.G. Devasahayam, IAS (Retd.) 265 Vibha Puri Das, IAS (Retd.)
129 Madan Meena, Artist, Rajasthan 266 Vikram Vyas, Independent Scientist
130 Madhu Sarin, Citizen 267 Vinay Jain, Citizen
131 Mahendra Pal Singh, Former Pro Vice Chancellor, Lucknow University. 268 Vinod C. Khanna , IFS (Retd.)
132 Maxwell Pereira, IPS (Retd.) 269 Vinod Vyasulu, Economist, Senior Citizen, Bangalore
133 Maya Krishna Rao, Theatre Artist 270 Vinoo Bhagat, Lawyer
134 Meena Gupta, IAS (Retd.) 271 Vipul Mudgal, Common Cause
135 Meera Dewan, Film-maker 272 Virginius Xaxa, Former Professor, Delhi University
136 Minakshi Bahadur, Citizen 273 Wajahat Habibullah , IAS (Retd.)
137 Minakshi Ibrahim, Citizen