As India’s general election continues, the prime minister has been accused of being the most inflammatory in the country’s recent history
The third of seven rounds of voting in India ’s general elections to elect 543 MP’s, which began on April 19th, takes place on May 7th. Polling ends on June 1st, followed by results three days later.that an opposition victory would result in it “seizing” wealth and land from India ’s majority Hindu community and surrendering it to the country’s 200-odd million minority Muslim population.
The prime minister also accused the principal opposition Indian National Congress party of declaring in its manifesto that, if elected, it would implement an affirmative employment policy benefiting Muslims to “strengthen its vote bank”. All of the prime minister’s assertions were debunked in fact checks by certain news websites and newspapers.
Soon after Modi became prime minister, Hindu vigilante mobs began lynching scores of Muslims across the country, who they claimed were trading in beef by killing cows, which are sacred to Hindus. The BJP enacted stringent laws with jail sentences of up to 10 years for killing a cow, adversely impacting millions of Muslim households who traditionally were cattle traders.
BJP-linked organisations have filed ownership petitions against several mosques on the grounds that they were illegally built by medieval Islamic invaders who had demolished Hindu temples. These groups have also accused Muslim men of “love jihad”, seducing Hindu women and marrying them after converting them to Islam. This had led to the enactment of legislation by the BJP administration which mandated that a person must receive state approval to convert to another religion.
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