[Excerpts from a Statement condemning the Targeting and Vilification of Harsh Mander by Narendra Modi, signed and released at New Delhi on 12th, June, 2013 by over 125 public activists and intellectuals] "..Narendra Modi has been targetting Harsh for the last week calling him a Maoist. Thus trying to belittle his work, raising doubts about him and villifying his name in public. This targetting of individuals and organisations and vilifying them is not new, earlier too he had spewed venom against Syeda Hammed, Teesta Setalvad and Shabnam Hashni amongst the several and now the new whipping boys are Harsh Mander and Dr. Binayak Sen. The hiring of Padma, a single poor woman, estranged from her husband, as a care giver in one of the 45 Institutions for street and abandoned children run by Aman Biradari, is being twisted and used by Modi to prove that Harsh is a Maoist sympathiser. The latest spin that Harsh Mander is in any way involved with the Maoists and that he may have had anything to do at all with the abduction of Vineel Krishna, the then District Collector of Malkangiri is patently false, concocted and the figment of a very perverted imagination... We hope that such politics will not be promoted by political parties and the media so that people can continue to work freely for public good.."
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:36:48 +0000
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