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Activist Shabnam Hashmi resigns from NIC protesting Thackeray’s
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June 07, 2010 03:34:13 PM,
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New Delhi:
Eminent civil rights activist Shabnam Hashmi resigned from the
National Integration Council (NIC) protesting against the entry into
the council of Shiv Sena leader and son of Bal Thackerary, Udhav
Thackeray.
Hashmi, who heads ANHAD NGO, has
called Udhav’s entry into NIC as “a cruel oxymoron.”
In a her resignation letter to the Union Home Minister P.
Chidambaram, Hashmi expresses surprise over the inclusion by the
Prime Minister of a person whose whole life is based on “divisive
and hate politics.”
“The news of Mr. Udhav Thakre being included in the National
Integration Council today has left me quite shocked. Mr Udhav
Thakre's whole political life is based on divisive and hate
politics. His entry into NIC is a cruel oxymoron,” said Hashmi in
the letter written on June 5.
“His brand of communal politics is against the secular and plural
value system that the Council upholds. It was bad enough to have
highly communal people on the NIC by virtue of being Chief
Ministers. Udhav Thakre's entry into the Council will further
derogate the high credentials and stature of the body forever.”
“The entry of such people or
people like Modi in the organization like NIC will jeopardize the
idea of the formation of the council", she said.
On why Prime Minister
included a person in the Integration Council who talks about
disintegration, she said only the Home Ministry could answer this
question.
The NIC under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister has been
reconstituted on April 5, 2010.
“Shri Uddhav Thackeray, Executive
President, Shivsena has also been nominated to the reconstituted NIC
in the category ‘Leaders of Regional Political Parties’, vide order
dated June 3, 2010,” said the Home Ministry release on June 5.
The National Integration Council was formed in 1961 under the
leadership of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to find ways and
means to combat communalism, casteism, regionalism and linguism.
"The whole idea of Nehru behind the formation of NIC will simply
disappear," she said.
At the end of the letter she urged the Home Minister to accept her
resignation. “Please accept my resignation from the NIC.”
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