Alva concerned over Modi’s silence on plea for genocide against non-Hindus

Congress leader Margaret Alva has expressed concern over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence over the calls for genocide of non-Hindus, to create a Hindu Rashtra.

Alva, a former Union Minister who was also the Governor of Uttarakhand and Rajasthan, has written to Modi, expressing concern over the hate-speeches against non-Hindus in the country.

“You are a leader respected nationally and internationally. You travel around the world, calling on world leaders, including His Holiness the Pope in Rome, proclaiming that India is a free democratic secular state. Your speeches and statements have been praised and extensively reported on, by the global media. Unfortunately, the reality on the ground here presents a stark contrast to the image you project of India to the global community, especially in the context of minorities rights and secularism,” she wrote to the Prime Minister.

“Your silence is misread as tacit approval and encouragement to the ever increasing violence and intimidation India’s minorities are being subjected to,” she stated. On the anti-conversion Bill move in Karnataka Legislature, Alva wrote that the Bill has it has provisions that have been struck down by courts and are violative of the Constitution. ​​​​​​​