New Delhi: IIM students and faculty wrote an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi raising concern over intolerance, religion and caste based violence and the recent hate speeches.
The signatories requested the PM to speak up against such incidents of ‘intolerance’ and claimed that the PM’s silence was emboldening the hate-filled voices. The letter comes in light of the recent Haridwar Dharam sansad event where minorities were targeted.
The letter, mailed to the Prime Minister’s Office, has 183 signatories, including 13 faculty members of IIM Bangalore and three of IIM Ahmedabad.
‘Your silence on the rising intolerance in our country, Honourable Prime Minister, is disheartening to all of us who value the multicultural fabric of our country. Your silence, Honourable Prime Minister, emboldens the hate-filled voices and threatens the unity and integrity of our country,’ says the letter. It urges him to steer the country away from ‘forces that seek to divide us’.