Narendra Modi mocks neighbour’s nuclear capabilities as home minister vows to ‘take back’ Kashmir
India n prime minister Narendra Modi, in a white waistcoat, and Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, greet supporters from a vehicle during a roadshow in Varanasi. Photograph: Rajesh Kumar/APand his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party , seeking a third consecutive term in office, has attained a worrying pitch.
Addressing an election rally in eastern Odisha state on May 11th, he mocked Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities as incompetent and ineffectual and claimed that Islamabad’s penurious state prevented it from “even handling its bombs”. He claimed Pakistan had been looking to sell its nuclear weapons but was unable to find a buyer as they were of poor quality.
The country’s 200-odd million Muslims, making up some 15 per centof the population, have long been targeted by the BJP and its numerous associate religious, social and political organisations, in their collective agenda of propagating Hindutva, or Hindu hegemony. At a recent rally in central Madhya Pradesh state Modi urged voters to choose between “Vote jihad” and “Ram Rajya”, or governance dictated by the tenets of the Hindu god Ram, whom he said guided the prime minister in creating a prosperous and just society.
In an interview with CNN-News 18 on May 14th, the prime minister rejected opposition and media allegations of vilifying Muslims, and said he would abandon public life if he ever resorted to sectarianism.
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