Since Narendra Modi's BJP took power in 2014, India's 200 million Muslims have faced turmoil.
In March, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said at an election rally in Arunachal Pradesh that previous governments had not cared for states that sent only two representatives to the country’s Parliament, as Arunachal and several others in the Indian Northeast do. Modi failed to see the irony of his claim given that he has More
Talk of an economic miracle is foundational to Modi's appeal and legitimacy at home. Yet his record is far from clear cut.
The prime minister’s bigotry is who he is. Whether Hindu society can or wants to change is the big question that will be answered in these elections.
Shafaqna English- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has increased divisive rhetoric on the election campaign, deploying some of the most extreme language of his decade in power to attack opponents. In a series of rallies since India’s general election began on April 19, Modi has referred to the country’s Muslim
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. India’s main opposition party is accusing prime minister Narendra Modi of using hate speech, after he called Muslims quote, “infiltrators.” It was some of his most incendiary rhetoric about the minority faith, and came days after the country began its weeks-long general election. The remarks at a campaign rally Sunday drew fierce criticism that Modi […]
Despite eventual visa backflip by authorities, ABC’s south-Asia correspondent Avani Dias left after being made to ‘feel so uncomfortable’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe south-Asia correspondent for Australia’s national broadcaster, Avani Dias, has been forced out of India after her reporting fell foul of the Indian government, in a sign of the increasing pressure on journalists in the country under...
The unwieldy alliance has had leaders arrested and bank accounts frozen as it tries to unseat the PM.
Opposition says prime minister targeting Muslim minority with ‘hate speech’ and violating election rulesIndia’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has been accused of hate speech during a campaign rally where he called Muslims “infiltrators” who had “many children” and claimed they would take people’s hard-earned money.The opposition accused Modi of “blatantly targeting” India’s 200 million Muslim minority with comments made while addressing voters at a speech in Rajasthan on Sunday. Continue...
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The Modi government on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was not under its control. The Centre responded to a lawsuit filed by the West Bengal government on the agency going ahead with its probe in several cases without the prerequisite nod from the state.Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress Party (TMC), which governs West Bengal, filed an original suit in the apex court against the Centre under Article 131 of the Constitution, alleging that the CBI...
The Indian PM may still be in a strong position; but incendiary, anti-Muslim rhetoric shows that all may not be going to planWhen Narendra Modi ran for prime minister for the first time in 2014, his overriding aim was to convince voters that he was a different man – no longer the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat, where, under his watch, more than 1,000 people were massacred in a communal pogrom in 2002. (A British government report found Modi “directly responsible” for not stopping...