UP: 224 Retired IAS officers lengthen assist to anti-conversion regulation

In a giant improvement, about 224 former IAS officers have written to the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, extending their assist to the just lately enacted anti-conversion regulation within the State. The letter comes days after 104 ‘motivated’ ex-IAS officers demanded the withdrawal of the regulation, meant to include the epidemic of grooming jihad.
The letter, as accessed by Times Now, learn, “It is a matter of concern that one group of retired civil servants, visibly biased, with an anti-establishment attitude despite overtly posing as non-political, repeatedly avail of every opportunity to put the Indian democracy, its institutions and persons, legitimately holding IAS officers in poor light before the whole world by making ill-considered public statements.”
Under the umbrella of ‘Forum of Concerned Citizens’, the 224 retired IAS officers have said that the ‘motivated’ civil servants and different vested pursuits are engaged on a mission to downgrade the integrity of India.
#Breaking | 224 ex-IAS officers write in assist of the anti-conversion regulation introduced forth by Uttar Pradesh Govt.Aditi with particulars. pic.twitter.com/HQmrMT0D2S— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) January 4, 2021
While chatting with Times Now, one of many signatories of the letter, Yogendra Narain stated that the anti-conversion regulation is critical to place a test on unlawful conversions. He stated that the Uttar Pradesh authorities took the precise step by making a authorized framework for all in coping with such circumstances. “The law applies to all. It is not targeted at a particular religion or sect… If anyone wants (to convert), they must follow the legal procedure. It is the right of the government to determine how conversions should take place,” Narain emphasised.
On being requested in regards to the claims made by the opposite group of 104 ex-civil servants, Yogendra Narain stated that the Chief Minister has been duly elected by the folks and that the federal government is inside its proper to border such a regulation. He added that the establishment of Judiciary is there to find out the ‘constitutional validity’ of the anti-conversion regulation. Narain conceded that the menace of forceful conversions had been highlighted by a number of newspapers and it was excessive time that the federal government intervened within the situation.
Listen in to Yogendra Narain, one of many signatories of the group of former IAS officers who wrote in assist of the anti-conversion regulation introduced forth by Uttar Pradesh Govt. pic.twitter.com/eAkRzknHKy— TIMES NOW (@TimesNow) January 4, 2021
104 former IAS officers demand the withdrawal of anti-conversion regulation
Earlier, 104 ex-IAS officers had written to Yogi Adityanath and alleged that Uttar Pradesh had turn into the epicentre of ‘hate politics’. “It has become painfully evident that, in recent years, UP state, once known as the cradle of the Ganga-Jamuna civilisation, has become the epicentre of the politics of hate, division and bigotry and that the institutions of governance are now steeped in communal poison,” they argued.
Claiming that the Uttar Pradesh CM wanted to re-educate himself about Constitutional rules, the letter additional alleged, “… a series of heinous atrocities committed by your administration against young Indians across Uttar Pradesh… Indians who are simply seeking to live their lives as free citizens of a free country.”