By TCN News,
New Delhi: Dr. Mohammad Manzoor Alam, General Secretary of All India Milli Council, has written an open letter to the senior BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani.
Comparing the 2002 Gujarat pogrom and the demolition of Babri mosque and subsequent communal riots, Dr Alam writes, “Now that you are likely to have more time,), we hope you would think in larger, non-sectarian terms to benefit the whole country, including the religious minorities and other weaker sections.”
According to Dr Alam this the seventh letter he has written to the former Deputy Prime Minister.
He further writes, “We hope that with your age and experience you will choose to guide and work for all of us, rather than lending your support to people who want to impose a one-sided civil war on minorities, especially Muslims.”
And added, “We also hope that you will own up to a measure of responsibility for the monumental violence against Muslims and try to steer a peaceful path of co-existence and mutual understanding rather than permanent conflict.”
Full text of the letter:
Mr. L K Advani
Leader of Opposition in Parliament
New Delhi
Dear Sir,
This is one of the letters we have been writing you in crucial moments of our country. Curiously, we have yet to get a reply.
This letter, too, is being written to you at a crucial moment, when Shri Narendra Modi of Gujarat 2002 infamy is lunging for prime ministerial chair and you have been reported to have “resigned from all your party positions”. As far as we are concerned, it could as well be a tactical move.
For us, Muslims, it may not have much significance as there is hardly any choice between being killed in Ayodhya 1992 under your able leadership or in 2002 Gujarat mass murder of Muslims under the supervision of Shri Modi.
What interests us more is that you will now have more time to pay a look at the great killing of innocent Muslims in 1992 and your solid backing to Shri Modi in post-Gujarat killings in staying CM. We hope you will give a thought to such blatantly anti-Muslim politics and the moral justification for it.
Now that you are likely to have more time (supposing that you will not be sucked back into the party and embark on the old destructive path once again), we hope you would think in larger, non-sectarian terms to benefit the whole country, including the religious minorities and other weaker sections.
The fire lit in Ayodhya consumed thousands of lives, mainly Muslims, as it spread to Mumbai and other areas, crossing even Indo-Pak and Indo-Bangla borders. Even Gujarat 2002 had an Ayodhya connection. The fire of hatred is crackling and burning today also in people’s hearts. Such fire has a tendency to consume even the person that stokes it. The fire is still being stoked by people like Shri Modi and Shri Togadia (even though they do not see eye to eye any longer).
This is the seventh letter I am writing to you, without getting a reply or a courteous acknowledgement, as written above.
We hope that with your age and experience you will choose to guide and work for all of us, rather than lending your support to people who want to impose a one-sided civil war on minorities, especially Muslims. We also hope that you will own up to a measure of responsibility for the monumental violence against Muslims and try to steer a peaceful path of co-existence and mutual understanding rather than permanent conflict.
With this we wish for a long, healthy life, and fruitful work for integration and brother/sisterhood.
With profound regards,
Yours sincerely,
(Dr. M. Manzoor Alam)
General Secretary, AIMC