Bulandshahr violence: Ex-bureaucrats slam CM, Modi; Yogi says thank my government

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. New Delhi/Lucknow, Dec 19 A group of former bureaucrats came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh BJP regime and Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Bulandshahr mob violence saying "politics of hate has taken the most dangerous turn" even as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday said his government should be "thanked" for defeating a "political conspiracy" to spread anarchy through communal violence in the state. Questioning Modi's "stony silence" over the December 3 mob violence in which a police officer was killed, the former bureaucrats and diplomats, in an open letter, said the Bulandshahr incident showed the "perverted" fundamental principles of governance and constitutional ethics of the Yogi government under which, "hooliganism and thuggery have been mainstreamed into governance". The letter signed by 83 former civil servants including former Foreign Secretaries Shiv Shankar Menon, Shayam Saran and Sujata Singh and former Ambassador and DGP Julio Ribeiro, called for the resignation of Adityanath and urged the Allahabad High Court to initiate a judicial enquiry taking suo-motu cognisance of the violence and the "cold blooded murder" of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh. Turning their attention to Modi, the former civil servants said: "Our Prime Minister, who is so voluble in his election campaigns and who never tires of telling us how the Constitution of India is the only holy book he worships, maintains a stony silence even as he sees a Chief Minister handpicked by him treat the same Constitution with sheer contempt.