The police vehicle in which inspector Subodh Kumar Singh was seated when the crowd attacked it with stones, forcing him to flee. The crowd later set the vehicle on fire at Syana in Bulandshahr on December 3. Concerned that the “agenda of bigotry and majoritarian supremacy” is taking precedence over everything else, the signatories to the statement said citizens should unite to demand Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s resignation. The retired bureaucrats were also critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This is the ninth time that the group of retired bureaucrats — named Constitutional Conduct — has sought to make an intervention in the mainstream narrative since June 2017.

Source: The Telegraph December 18, 2018 22:41 UTC