Intolerance growing in the country - Nitish

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today joined a number of writers and social activists in expressing concern over "growing intolerance" in the country and charged the NDA at the Centre with undermining basic ethos and values, a development which he described as 'extremely worrying.'
"Over 25 of our cultural icons have returned the (Sahitya Akademi) awards in protest against growing intolerance in the country and now civil society has decided to boycott CIC convention (tomorrow)," Kumar said in a series of tweets.
Slamming the central government for being "insensitive" by not reaching out to those writers/cultural icons returning their awards, he lamented that the Narendra Modi government was finding fault with them instead of pro-actively assuaging their fears.

"Instead of reaching out to them and pro-actively assuaging their fears, Modi government as usual is trying to find faults with them," he said in a tweet obliquely referring to Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley describing those writers returning Akademi awards as "manufactured paper rebellion" against the government in the wake of a "manufactured crisis" in a post on Facebook yesterday.
"The insensitivity of ruling class and their efforts to undermine basic ethos and values of our country is extremely worrying," Kumar said in a jibe.
At least 30 writers have returned Sahitya Akademi and other awards and a number of social activists, including Aruna Roy who was a member of the National Advisory Council during the UPA regime, has decided to boycott the annual Right to Information (RTI) convention to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister tomorrow.