'Uttar Pradesh is becoming the center of hate politics', 104 former chartered officers write to CM Yogi

- The law of love jihad became a means of harassing minorities

New Delhi on Wednesday 30 December 2020

More than a hundred former chartered accountants have made shocking allegations that Uttar Pradesh is becoming a hotbed of hate politics.

Officials including former defense adviser Shivshankar Menon, former foreign secretary Anupama Rao and former prime minister's adviser TK A Nair, in a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, alleged that Uttar Pradesh, once known as the Ganga Jamuna pilgrimage, is now a state of hatred. And was becoming the center of the politics of bigotry.

The letter specifically criticized the recently enacted Love Jihad Act and referred to some recent developments. In Moradabad, a minority couple was harassed by the Bajrang Dal to such an extent that the woman had an abortion. In Bijnor, two teenagers were caught in a false case and taken to a police station where a teenager was caught red-handed under the Love Jihad Act for falsely accusing him of trying to marry a 16-year-old Hindu girl.

The former chartered officers wrote, citing a Allahabad High Court judgment, that a young woman who is getting married cannot be prevented from getting married if she is an adult. Neither of them commit any crime. The court made it clear that preventing someone from marrying in this way violates the fundamental rights of citizens.

The letter alleged that the Love Jihad Act was enacted with the intention of harassing minorities and should be withdrawn immediately. The allegation that Muslim youths seduce Hindu girls by wearing Hindu attire and tilak is not entirely true. Fictional stories are presented by exaggerating the statistics of the number of such incidents.

These officials summed up the news published in some English newspapers and accused the Yogi government of spreading the politics of hatred.