India: Letter to the Prime Minister regarding the demolition of campus of the Sarva Sewa Sangh in Varanasi | Binoy Viswam

Binoy Viswam
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S. No. BV/2023-24/PMO/06 Dt. 23th July, 2023

To,

Shri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Government of India

Respected Shri Narendra Modi ji,

I write this letter to convey to you distressing developments from your own Lok Sabha constituency which you have not taken note of. The campus of the Sarva Sewa Sangh in Varanasi is being demolished by the administration and several followers of Mahatma Gandhi, leaders of political parties, academicians and civil society activists were arrested for protesting this move. The administration wishes to demolish the seven-decades-old campus which houses a publishing house, a library, a free preschool, a Khadi Bhandar and a statue of Mahatma Gandhi to build a guest house in its place.

The Sarva Sewa Sangh was founded back in 1948 by luminaries like Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Kaka Kalelkar and Jayaprakash Narayan to unite