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.
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| 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 |
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| 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)
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| 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 |
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| 132 | Maxwell Pereira, IPS (Retd.) | 269 | Vinod Vyasulu, Economist, Senior Citizen, Bangalore |
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| 135 | Meera Dewan, Film-maker | 272 | Virginius Xaxa, Former Professor, Delhi University |
| 136 | Minakshi Bahadur, Citizen | 273 | Wajahat Habibullah , IAS (Retd.) |
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