Take action against Sudarshan TV, former civil servants urge Amit Shah

In a snowballing of the controversy over “UPSC Jihad”, a group of 91 former civil servants have written to Home Minister Amit Shah and Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar seeking legal and administrative action against Sudarshan New TV channel and said that is completely perverse to allege that there is a conspiracy to infiltrate Muslim officers into the services, or to use terms like UPSC Jihad or Civil Services Jihad in this connection.

“These communal and irresponsible statements amount to hate speech and are defamatory of an entire community,” the signatories to the letter said.

The letter is addressed to Home Minister, Minister for Information & Broadcasting, Chairman, National Human Rights Commission Chairman, Minorities Commission Chairman,