Over 200 Indian writers for voting out hate monger BJP
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Over two hundred prominent Indian writers including Arundhati Roy have signed a joint petition against the politics of hate being pursued by Bharatiya Janata Party and have urged voters to defeat the BJP in upcoming Lok Sabha elections in India.
In a joint petition posted on the website of Indian Cultural Forum, these writers said our Constitution guarantees equal rights to its all citizens, the freedom of expression and eat, pray and live as they choose, and right to dissent.
But in the last few years, we have seen citizens being lynched or assaulted or discriminated on account of their community, caste, gender, or the region they come from.
They said that hate politics has been used to divide the country, create fear, and exclude more and more people from living as full-fledged citizens.
The petition further said that writers, artists, filmmakers, musicians and other cultural practitioners have been hounded, intimidated, and censored.
It said that anyone who questions the powers is in danger of being harassed or arrested on false and ridiculous charges.
