By TCN News,
New Delhi: IITs and its several alumni associations have been crying for IITian Arvind Kejriwal and his Team Anna but no IIT or alumni association has so far paid even lip service for four brilliant IITians of Gujarat who are being victimized by Chief Minister Narendra Modi for not toeing to his diktats.
IITian Ahmad Cameron (IIT Delhi) has highlighted this fact and expressed his shock over the cold attitude of IITs and alumni associations of IITians towards IITians Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha. They are not supporting the four even though they are under threat from Modi just because they boldly tried to uphold the Constitution of India. But the same IITs and IITians associations are crying from rooftop for IITian Kejriwal.
“It is shocking to find not one of the IITs or any of its alumni associations inside or outside India had the same morality & ethics to stand up in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha [all IITians] who need this support most today the way they did for Arvind Kejriwal and his team Anna,” IITian Ahmad Cameron wrote in a letter he sent to IITs and IIT alumni associations in India and abroad.
Cameron himself gives the reason about why IITs are silent for victimized IITians of Gujarat and also asks if raising voice for these four is not far more important.
“Reason is simple – These fours are under threat for their lives after taking the criminal Chief Minister Narender Modi head on by adhering to the Constitution of India they have been sworn to protect and preserve. While Kejriwal is under no such threat. All IITs stood up in his team’s support which was the right thing to do at that instance. Isn`t raising voices of support for these four IITians far more important, urgent and need of the hour?” Cameron, who works in Canada, wrote.
Text of the Letter
To,
The Directors of IITs,
Presidents of IIT Alumni Associations in India,
Presidents of IIT Alumni Associations Outside India
My Fellow IITians,
Dear Directors of IITs, Alumni Presidents & all other IITians,
It is shocking to find not one of the IITs or any of its alumni associations inside or outside India had the same morality & ethics to stand up in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha [all IITians] who need this support most today the way they did for Arvind Kejriwal and his team Anna. Reason is simple – These fours are under threat for their lives after taking the criminal Chief Minister Narender Modi head on by adhering to the Constitution of India they have been sworn to protect and preserve. While Kejriwal is under no such threat. All IITs stood up in his team’s support which was the right thing to do at that instance. Isn`t raising voices of support for these four IITians far more important, urgent and need of the hour?
My association with IITs dates back to IIT Kharagpur as a resident of Vidyasagar Hall in 1974 to my days at IIT Delhi between 1975-85 as a student and having worked as Senior Research Associate there. I find the moral pedestal at which IITs placed themselves by supporting Kejriwal’s Team Anna has fallen flat by finding an eerie silence with respect to Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha despite my raising this with some very senior IITians here in Canada and otherwise almost 10 days back.
While being in IITs I always found a subtle support for RSS & BJP cohorts through various modes such as its NSS activities (I can name the RSS activists faculty running it but that is not the objective here). But now by supporting Kejriwal`s Team Anna and simultaneously not raising our voices in support of Sanjiv Bhatt, Rahul Sharma, Satish Verma and Dr Mukul Sinha only proves IITs have remained hot bed of these political & communal organizations for decades. This act is just a confirmation of the same coming out in no uncertain terms.
While writing to all of you I have made sure this email goes to all the major and senior proven secular nationalist correspondents of India as I am certain no voice in support of these four IITians will be raised even after sending this appeal to all of you for reasons given above. Hence the outside world must know what is the reality of the IITs when it comes to supporting the “REAL UP RIGHT, HONEST, SECULAR AND NATIONALIST IITians whose life is under threat.
Regards,
Ahmad Cameron
B.Sc & M.Sc Phy AMU
MTech & PhD IIT Delhi
Brampton ON
Canada