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“Save Lakshwadeep”: 93 Top Bureaucrats Write To PM

93 retired top civil servants from across the country have signed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi against a series of controversial decisions by Lakshadweep's administrator Praful Patel.
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With regard to the controversial decisions being taken by the administrator in Lakshadweep, as many as 93 retired civil servants have written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The letter stated:

“We write to you today to register our deep concern over disturbing developments taking place in the pristine Union Territory (UT) of Lakshadweep in the name of ‘development’. It is clear that each of these draft regulations is part of a larger agenda that is against the ethos and interests of the islands and islanders,” the letter reads, stating that these decisions have been taken without consulting the people of Lakshadweep. “Each of these measures smacks not of development but of alien and arbitrary policymaking, in violation of established practices that respect the environment and society of Lakshadweep. Taken together, the actions and far-reaching proposals of the Administrator, without due consultation with the islanders, constitute an onslaught on the very fabric of Lakshadweep society, economy, and landscape as if the islands were just a piece of real estate for tourists and tourism investors from the outside world”, the letter further states.

The signatories have expressed their wish to get the controversial decisions withdrawn and the appointment of a “full-time, people-sensitive, responsive Administrator”. These objections come days after several people, including those who belong to Lakshadweep, took to social media with several online campaigns like #SaveLakshadweep. Elected representatives from Kerala – from the Congress as well as the Left – have been protesting the “unilateral” drafts of the administrator, after Lakshadweep MP Mohammed Faizal raised concerns.

The group of former civil servants that includes retired IAS, IFS, and IPS officers as well as a former Lakshadweep administrator, claims that another draft, widely known as the Goonda Act, has generated fear that the real purpose of the regulation is to “smother dissent or protests against policies, actions of the Administrator or on any other issue”, especially in a territory where, according to the National Crime Records Bureau, crime rates are very low compared to the rest of India.

Lakshadweep Collector K Asker Ali had held a press conference in the last week of May, backing administrator Praful Patel’s draft orders as “much-needed reforms for the development of Lakshadweep”, hitting out at the online protests as “misleading propaganda”.

The letter from the Constitutional Conduct Group states that they are not affiliated with any political party but believe in neutrality and commitment to the Indian Constitution.


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