224 Former IAS Officers Write To Yogi Adityanath In Support Of UP's Anti-Conversion Laws

224 former IAS officers have written to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in support of the recently enacted ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Ordinance, 2020’ in the state. This occurs merely days after 104 ex-IAS officers had asked for the withdrawal of the law, calling UP the ‘epicenter of politics of hate’.

The civil servants in support of the ordinance launched a scathing attack on the aforementioned 104 former officers, calling out the latter for being visibly biased and with an anti-establishment attitude.

“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,” the letter read, reports Times Now.

Yogendra Narain, one of the signatories of the letter, spoke to the news channel and asserted that the law is important to curb illegal religious conversions. He further expressed that the democratically elected government is well within its rights to formulate the law.

Narain mentioned that the judiciary will determine the constitutional validity of the anti-conversion law but it was necessary for the government to intervene in the issue as newspapers have brought into light the slew of forceful conversions.

“The law applies to all. It is not targeted at a particular religion or sec. 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,” the former defence secretary of India claimed.