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On Tuesday Congress leader Shashi Tharoor came out strongly in support of the 49 celebrities against whom an FIR was lodged last week in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur for writing a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that highlighted the growing incidents of mob lynching in India.
Tharoor said he was “deeply disturbed” by the FIR filed against the authors of the open letter and urged the Prime Minister to publically welcome dissent even if it was against him or his government.
On 4th October an FIR was lodged against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to PM Modi raising concern over the increasing incidents of mob lynching.
Many cases of mob lynching of Muslims, Dalits and other minorities must be stopped immediately while stressing that there was “no democracy without dissent”. It also noted that the term Jai Shri Ram had been reduced to a “provocative war cry”.
Tharoor raised if action against dissenters was indicative of the ‘Naya Bharat’ PM Modi wishes to create. “Since when has written a letter of concern to the elected leader of the country the trigger for an FIR? Is the ‘Naya Bharat’ you wish to create one where citizens shall not be heard and their concerns not addressed?” Tharoor raised questions.
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