Margaret Alva questions PM’s silence on attack against minorities

Your silence is misread as tacit approval and encouragement to such violence against minorities, she tells Modi in a letter

Alleging that highly organised and militant right-wing extremist groups are terrorising, attacking, and killing innocent citizens in the name of religion across the country, veteran Congress leader Margaret Alva has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that his silence was misread as tacit approval and encouragement to the ever-increasing violence and intimidation India's minorities are being subjected to.

“Mr. Prime Minister, how can you close your eyes and remain silent when atrocities on India’s minorities are mounting? When will you speak up and put a stop to this madness and violence?,” the former Union Minister wondered in a letter written to the Prime Minister on the eve of the New Year.