83 ex-bureaucrats seek Adityanath's resignation over Bulandshahr violence

According to them, the violence in Bulandshahr marks 'the most dangerous turn yet in the direction taken by the politics of hate in recent times'

Expressing their anguish and anger over the recent mob violence in Bulandshahr that claimed the life of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh on December 3, 2018, a group of retired civil servants has penned an open letter demanding the resignation of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath “for his failure to abide by the constitution to which he has sworn his allegiance”.

The letter has also been written in a bid to remind those in positions of power, like the “Chief Secretary, the Director General of Police, the Home Secretary, and all other members of the higher civil services”, of their “constitutional