'Your silence is worrying': IIT alumni write to PM Modi over hate speeches, Bulli Bai app

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File Pic

Alumni of IITs recently wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about "the dark clouds looming over the country" and that his silence on hate speeches in Haridwar, the Sulli deals and Bulli Bai apps is "deeply worrying".

The letter was signed by over 100 alumni ranging from the 1962 batch to the 2020 batch.

They quoted an NY Times report that stated, "Even by the standards of the rising anti Muslim fury in India, the three-day conference in the city of Haridwar, 150 miles north of New Delhi, produced the most blatant and alarming call for violence in recent years."

The alumni in the letter quoted the NY report and said "that the leaders of this congregation that made these calls for genocide, had close ties to the party you lead." They also urged the PM and other leaders of the BJP to "condemn this act and initiate swift, meaningful legal action on the perpetrators."

Taking about the Sulli deals and the Bulli Bai app, the letter stated, "The ages of the youngsters who have been apprehended as suspects, suggests how deep communal hatred and misogyny is in our society."