Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Nusrat Jahan on Wednesday backedthe open letter written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by 49 eminentpersonalities raising concern over the growing incidents of mob lynching andhate crimes against Muslims and Dalits. Jahan quoted a couplet from Iqbal'spoem Sare Jahan Se Achha to stress that India's unity in diversity should notbe destroyed. The TMC MP from West Bengal's Basirhat shared a post on socialmedia expressing her support for the letter written by 49 intellectuals,including noted filmmakers Mani Ratnam and Shyam Benegal.

"There are numerous incidents of citizens beingattacked by so-called "cow vigilantes" over rumours of eating beef,or cow-smuggling, etc and government's selective silence and inaction hits ushard," Nusrat Jahan said in the post. Nusrat claimed that the lynch mobshas turned "Lord Ram's name into murder cry" and mob lynchers arereal enemies of India. She said that the mob lunchers are nothing less than"terrorists". "As young MP, representing new age secular India,I request government and all lawmakers to frame a law to stop such assaults ondemocracy by mob lynchers," Nusrat Jahan said in her post.

"Sirf insaaaniyat ke naate, gaay ke naam pe, bhagwan kenaam pe, kisi ki dari pe, toh kisi ki topi pe - khoon kharaba bandh kare (Inthe name of humanity, please stop bloodshed in the name of cows andreligion)," she added.