AN APPEAL Never before in post-independence India have political forces, which are a front for an organization committed to creating a Hindu Rashtra, made as strong a bid for power as in the coming elections. These forces are led by a person who presided over a pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat in 2002 and has never expressed any contrition over his role in that ghastly incident. And they enjoy the backing of the most powerful corporate houses in the country. The prospect of this alliance of corporate capital and communal forces coming to power constitutes a palpable threat to the future of our secular democracy. We urge all responsible individuals and political formations to ponder over the situation and urgently take whatever steps are necessary for defending our secular democracy. We appeal to the electorate to foil this corporate-communal alliance’s bid for power by voting against the BJP-led NDA. Aban Raza Abdul Maboob Abdullah A. Rahman Abhilasha Kumari Achin Vanaik Aijaz Ahmad Ajeet Caur Akeel Bilgrami Ali N. Rizavi Amar Farooqui Amar Kanwar Amarjit Chandan Amit Sen Gupta Amit Upadhyay Amiya Kumar Bagchi Anand Bala Anand Sahay Angelie Multani Aniket Alam Anil Bhatti Anil Sadgopal Anita Cherian Annie Koshi Anomita Sen Anuradha Kapur Apoorva Gautam Archana Prasad Arjun Dev Arpana Caur Arunkumar H.G. Asad Zaidi Ashish Dasgupta Ashish Ghosh Ashley Tellis Ataullah Atlury Murali Atul Bhardwaj Ayesha Kidwai B.P. Sahu Badri Raina Banwari Taneja Biswamoy Pati C.P. Chandrasekhar Chitra Joshi D.N. Jha Debjani Sengupta Deepak K. Singh Doodh Nath Singh Dvijendra Nath Kalia G. Arunima Gargi Chakravartty Geeta Kapur Girish Mishra Girish Shrivastav Gitanjali Shree Githa Hariharan Gunjan Doogar Harbans Mukhia Harun Riaz Imrana Qadeer Indira Arjun Dev Indira Chandrasekhar Indira Unninayar Iqtidar Alam Khan Ira Anjali Irfan Habib Ishrat Alam Jaideep Chatterjee Jaishankar Monteiro Janaki Nair Jasodhara Bagchi Jauhar Kanungo Javed Malick Jawaharlal Pande Jawarimal Parakh Jayati Ghosh Jehangir Jani Joe Athialy K.M. Shrimali K.P. Jayashankar Kajri Jain Kamala Menon Kanti Mohan Soz Kesavan Veluthat Keval Arora Kumar Shahani Kumkum Roy Kunal Chakrabarti Lakshmi Krishnamurty Lata Singh Lima Kanungo M.K. Raina M.M.P. Singh Madangopal Singh Madhu Prasad Madhu Sahni Madhu Trivedi Madhusree Dutta Mahavir Sharma Malathi A. Malini Bhattacharya Mallika Taneja Manas Ray Mandira Sen Mandira Sen Manish Kansara Manjari Katju Maya Rao Mazher Hussain Meghna Joshi Mihir Bhattacharya Mohan Rao Mohd Arif Moloyashree Hashmi Mukul Mangalik Mukul Priyadarshini Mushirul Hasan N.K. Sharma Nalini Taneja Navjot Altaf Neeladri Bhattacharya Neena Rao Neera Chandhoke Neeraj Malick Neha Chaturvedi Nilima Sheikh Nirmalangshu Mukherjee Oishik Sirkar Pamela Philipose Parthiv Shah Prabhat Patnaik Prabhat Shukla Praveen Jha Pushpamala N. R. Ramachandran R.C. Thakran Rabin Chakraborty Radhika Prasad Rahul Verma Rajinder Arora Rajiv Gupta Rajni Arora Rakhshanda Jalil Ram Rahman Ramesh Rawat Ramnik Mohan Rani Ray Rashmi Sawhney Rebecca Kurian Reena Ginwala Rekha Awasthi Rimli Bhattacharya Ritu Jerath Rooprekha Verma S. Anand S. Kalidas S.Z.H. Jafri Saba Hasan Saeed Mirza Sashi Kumar Saskia Sassen Saumyajit Bhattacharya Selvyn Jussy Seshnarayan Singh Shabnam Hashmi Shakti Kak Shamshad Shanta Gokhale Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay Sheba Chhachhi Sherna Dastur Shibanj Kinkar Chaube Shikha Sen Shilpaa Anand Shireen Moosvi Shivaji Panikkar Shubhra Chakrabarti Shubhradeep Chakravorty Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Smita Gupta Sohail Hashmi Soumya Dutta Srinivasan Ramani Sruti Bala Sudhanva Deshpande Sudhir Chandra Sudhir Gandotra Sukumar Muralidharan Sumangala Damodaran Sumant Sengupta Sumitra Purkayastha Sunil Supriya Verma Suresh Jayaram Suvira Jaiswal Ujjawal Gupta Urmimala Sarkar Utsa Patnaik V. Ramakrishna Veenapani Chawla Venkatesh Athreya Vidya Das Arora Vishwamohan Jha Vivan Sundaram Vivek Monteiro Wasi Haider Xavier Dias Yogesh Snehi Yousuf Saeed Zoya Hasan
Posted on: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 14:53:48 +0000