{"id":4020,"date":"2009-12-11T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T18:53:01","slug":"open-letter-to-p-chidambaram-re-telangana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-p-chidambaram-re-telangana\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear P Chidambaram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear P Chidambaram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dsyndication.com\/showarticle.aspx?nid=DNMUM156251\" title=\"Centre gives in: Telangana to be a separate state\">A newspaper report<\/a> today states that you are willing &#8220;to drop all cases against Telangana activists booked since November 29.&#8221; Many of these &#8216;activists&#8217; were <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/TRS-activists-torch-Renuka-Chowdhurys-office\/articleshow\/5290860.cms\" title=\"TRS activists torch Renuka Chowdhury's office\">booked for rioting and damaging public and private property<\/a>. Now, for political purposes, you wish to drop charges.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. For the rule of law to mean anything, surely the law must take its course. Even you, as the home minister, cannot be above the constitution. How then can you justify this move?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even getting into the bad precedent set by your succumbing to <a href=\"\/fasting-unto-death\/\" title=\"Fasting Unto Death\">blackmail and gundagardi<\/a>. Already the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Now-GJM-to-start-indefinite-fast-for-Gorkhaland-state\/articleshow\/5323009.cms\" title=\"Now, GJM to start indefinite fast for Gorkhaland state\">has announced<\/a> &#8220;an indefinite hunger strike.&#8221; Who knows where this will end?<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>More open letters <a href=\"\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters by Amit Varma\">here<\/a>. Also read: <a href=\"\/mobs-are-above-the-law\/\" title=\"Mobs are Above the Law -- Amit Varma\">&#8220;Mobs are Above the Law.&#8221;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear P Chidambaram<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3dsyndication.com\/showarticle.aspx?nid=DNMUM156251\" title=\"Centre gives in: Telangana to be a separate state\">A newspaper report<\/a> today states that you are willing &#8220;to drop all cases against Telangana activists booked since November 29.&#8221; Many of these &#8216;activists&#8217; were <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/TRS-activists-torch-Renuka-Chowdhurys-office\/articleshow\/5290860.cms\" title=\"TRS activists torch Renuka Chowdhury's office\">booked for rioting and damaging public and private property<\/a>. Now, for political purposes, you wish to drop charges.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. For the rule of law to mean anything, surely the law must take its course. Even you, as the home minister, cannot be above the constitution. How then can you justify this move?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even getting into the bad precedent set by your succumbing to <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/fasting-unto-death\/\" title=\"Fasting Unto Death\">blackmail and gundagardi<\/a>. Already the Gorkha Janamukti Morcha <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/Now-GJM-to-start-indefinite-fast-for-Gorkhaland-state\/articleshow\/5323009.cms\" title=\"Now, GJM to start indefinite fast for Gorkhaland state\">has announced<\/a> &#8220;an indefinite hunger strike.&#8221; Who knows where this will end?<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>More open letters <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters by Amit Varma\">here<\/a>. Also read: <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/mobs-are-above-the-law\/\" title=\"Mobs are Above the Law -- Amit Varma\">&#8220;Mobs are Above the Law.&#8221;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,41,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear P Chidambaram - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-p-chidambaram-re-telangana\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear P Chidambaram - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear P Chidambaram A newspaper report today states that you are willing &#8220;to drop all cases against Telangana activists booked since November 29.&#8221; Many of these &#8216;activists&#8217; were booked for rioting and damaging public and private property. 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