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We are a group of former civil servants of the All India and Central Services who have worked with the Central and State Governments in the course of our careers.
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The full statement and list of signatories have been republished below. Clearly, under the New Doval Doctrine, people like Father Stan Swamy would become the arch enemy of the Indian state and the prime concern and target of its security forces,” the statement said. “Earlier, the term “Urban Naxal” was being used to denigrate individual human rights activists. The signatories took on National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, who said “the new frontiers of war is the civil society, which can be manipulated to hurt a nation’s interests”. He was addressing the passing out parade of IPS probationers at the National Police Academy in Hyderabad. And quite shockingly, General Bipin Rawat, Chief of Defence Staff, gave a fillip to the growing menace of vigilantism by endorsing the killing of persons believed to be terrorists by lynch mobs in Kashmir,” the statement said. “The Prime Minister, on his part, discerned a political agenda in what he felt was selective perception of human rights violation in certain incidents, while overlooking certain others. The former civil servants noted the statements made by Justice (retd.) Arun Mishra, chair of National Human Rights Commission, who asserted that “India’s creditable record on human rights was being tarnished at the behest of international forces”.Īlso read: ‘New Norm to Accuse India of Human Rights Violations’: NHRC Chair and Ex-SC Judge Arun Mishra Fabian, Wajahat Habibullah, Harsh Mander, F.T.R. The signatories, under the Constitutional Conduct Group, include former civil servants Anita Agnihotri, Gurjit Singh Cheema, A.S. At a systemic level, the financial viability of civil society organisations is being progressively undermined by tweaking the legal framework governing foreign contributions, deployment of corporate social responsibility funds and income tax exemptions,” the statement said. Any entity, which dares to highlight deviations from the norms of Constitutional conduct, or question the arbitrary exercise of executive authority, runs the risk of being projected as a foreign agent and enemy of the people.
“Civil society is viewed through an adversarial prism today. New Delhi: A group of 102 former civil servants on November 28 wrote an open letter to Indian citizens, criticising the recent statements made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other high-ranking officials about the country’s civil society.