30 - Dec - 2020

Uttar Pradesh has become the epicentre of politics of hate.

Uttar Pradesh has become the epicentre of politics of hate. This is stated by 104 former bureaucrats, including Shiv Shankar Menon, K. Sujatha Rao, T.K.A. Nair, Wajahad Habibullah and A.S. Dulad. In a letter written to Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, the former bureaucrats have expressed their strong disapproval and concern at the “anti-love-jihad law”. Promulgated in Uttar Pradesh. In their letter, the former bureaucrats have said that this law is being used as a stick to victimise those Indian men who are Muslim and women who dare to exercise their freedom of choice. The Yogi Adityanath government has passed the “UP Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020” on 28th November, 2020. Records show that, the UP police has registered 14 cases and made 51 arrests, under the ordinance.