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Silent homage to a whistle-blower

By Our Staff Reporter

Members of the S.K. Dubey Foundation taking out a peace march in New Delhi on Saturday. — Photo: S. Subramanium

NEW DELHI, JAN. 10. People from different walks of life today participated in a "silent march" organised to pay homage to Satyendra Kumar Dubey, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) engineer who was murdered in Bihar in November last after he exposed the corruption while working as a project director in the Prime Minister's ambitious Golden Quadrilateral Highway Project.

Expressing their deep anguish over the murder of a brilliant engineer and also an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumnus, the protesters demanded that the Government immediately take stern measures to curb the menace of corruption and other criminal activities related to it.

They also felt that there was an urgent need to start a nationwide movement against the menace and also a greater role for every individual in eradicating corruption from society.

The protesters said the death of Dubey was a wake-up call for every Indian to come together and realise his dream of a corruption-free nation.

Stating that even in the past several such incidents had happened when honest citizens who raised their voice against deep-rooted corruption in the functioning of governments were killed, they demanded that the safety and security of whistle-blowers be ensured as that alone would give courage to other honest citizens to expose more corruption cases.

The march was organised by several organisations, associations and citizens' groups and students, particularly from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi University and IIT, actively participated.

Educationists, advocates, peace activists and social workers also took part in the march which was followed by prayers, songs and talks by eminent citizens.

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