To,



Narendra Damodardas Modi, BJP parliamentary party leader

Amitbhai Anilchandra "Amit" Shah, President of BJP

Honorable leaders of BJP,



Subject: Take strong action against Hawa Singh Sangwan for polarizing Haryana along community lines



Throughout the history of its existence, your party claimed to stand for nationalism and patriotism above everything else. It claimed to be a party with a difference. It has taken a strong stance against separatists in Kashmir. Your MLA from New Delhi not only physically attached JNU's Student Union leader for his anti-India remarks but also defended his actions openly. Your leaders openly criticized Bengal government for being soft on Malda riots which were believed to be instigated by illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.

From Indian National Congress to CPI(M), from SP to BSP, from RJD to INLD; your party leaders blamed almost every other party for vote bank politics. Your party leaders claimed "development for all appeasement for none".

Lakhs of Hindus, from the Punjabi community in Haryana, who were uprooted once in 1947 believed in BJP. My family, being one of those Punjabi migrants, living in Rohtak, voted for BJP. We voted for BJP when it had no chance of winning. We voted for BJP when it fielded Jat candidate while the Congress in opposition fielded a Punjabi candidate. And there are lakhs of us in the state of Haryana who religiously voted for your party, irrespective of the fielded candidate. Your party promised us security. Your party promised us a stronger India. Your party promised a stronger stance against all anti-national forces. And finally, that moment has arrived. Your party won majority seats both in Haryana and at the national level, no more compromise with the ideology in the name of coalition dharma.

Alas, all that was easy till your own vote bank was not in-charge of the destruction of the nation. While protesting against the government for not declaring Jats an economically backward class, a small section of Jat community instigated violence in the Rohtak city. They deliberately arson and looted the business, primarily, targeting non-Jat businesses. About 2000 crores worth of property has been destroyed. The main leader of this protest is the same Hawa Singh Sangwan who last year called, Haryana's Punjabi Chief Minister a "Pakistani". He insulted lakhs of Punjabi refugees, who have spent two generations recovering from the scars of 1947.

And how did your leaders react?

The Chief Minister, who he called a Pakistani, invited him for discussion. Your Minister of Home Affairs Rajnath Singh appealed to him for peace. Rather than declaring Hawa Singh Sangwan a terrorist, your leaders pusillanimously caved into his demands. Your party knows that Jat votes will make a difference in UP elections of 2017. Is this not vote bank politics? Is this not politics of appeasement?

Following your party's own slogan of being "party with a difference", we request you to take a strong stance against Hawa Singh Sangwan. Declare him a terrorist for giving a bad name to the Jat community. The danger of having such violent extremists is that they eliminate the sane voices of their own community over time. He is creating a Jat vs non-Jat division in Haryana. Such polarization will harm the peaceful state of Haryana which is (or now, was?) one of the richest states in India. Your party might lose UP elections in 2017 but it is too cheap to sell one's ideology for a quick victory. It is a watershed moment for leaders like you to choose between nationalism and appeasement.