Hate Speech

Censorship and the Drumbeats of Hate: Mapping the state of free speech ahead of the 2026 polls

A new report by Free Speech Collective traces five years of censorship, criminalisation of dissent, and the rise of hate-driven political discourse across Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry—raising urgent questions about the conditions for free and fair elections

Rising tide of hate speech marks India’s general assembly election campaigns

BJP’s top leaders while campaigning for elections, invoked anti-Muslim tropes, violent imagery, and conspiracy theories

Spewing hate, slurring Muslims: an unchecked decade-long diatribe by Bharatiya Janata Party?

Our team at SabrangIndia has prepared a listicle of provocative and inflammatory speeches delivered by BJP top leaders, including the Prime Minister, period of 2016 to 2024 to expose how party leaders have used hate to validate the otherosation of the Muslim community

“We will fight back, alongside the other proud Indians, against your venom, for the Amrit of our Constitution”: Open Letter to Prime Minister Modi...

In a biting critique of the hate speech rendered by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that is symptomatic of the hate in his entire organisations and cadres (the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Hindu Mahasabha), this famed writer from Kerala, author of ‘God is Neither a Khomeini nor a Mohan Bhagwat holds the man to account and shame

‘Inflammatory, communal’: Modi inciting hate in Jharkhand, poll official told

A civil society delegation of the Loktantra Bachao 2024...

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee moves Madras HC, urges court to direct ECI to demand an explanation from PM Modi for his alleged hate filled...

The petitioners also bemoaned over one show cause notice issued to BJP by the ECI even after continuous hate riddled speeches, asking why notice was issued to party when PM Modi is the "individual culprit" behind the hate statements.

April: CJP’s hate watch campaign analyses several hate incidents reported across the country in the last week

From Sakshi Maharaj’s circumlocutory jibe at Muslims producing “40 children” to children asking those who do not chant Jai Shree Ram to leave the country, we track and analyse several such instances in this piece for our Hate Watch campaign.

Elections 2024: The lead up to the first two phases of voting have seen far right leaders deliver anti-Muslim hate speech across India

From April 8 to April 23, seven incidents of provocative and inflammatory speeches reported, common theme of destruction of Muslim religious places of worship

ECI issues notice to BJP party, and not the star campaigner himself, over alleged hate speech delivered by PM Modi, seeks response by 11...

The constitutional authority has forwarded complaints sent by Congress, CPI and CPI (ML), all of which had criticised the communal and inflammatory words used by PM MODI during election speech in Rajasthan in contravention to the election laws

Rajasthan: Election Watch & PUCL file complaint with Jaipur police demanding that FIR be registered against the Banswara hate speech of PM, Narendra Modi

Rajasthan Election Watch & PUCL, Rajasthan unit have filed a complaint for registering an FIR against Shri Narendra Modi with Jaipur Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph. The letter was forwarded to the Banswara SP for necessary action.

FIRs for hate speech registered against BJP MLAs Nitesh Rane and Geeta Jain: Maharashtra Police to Bombay High Court

Citizens of Mira Road-Bhayander, Citizens for Justice and Peace have been filing consistent complaints before the police on these speeches since January 2024 but it is only after other citizens moved the Bombay High Court that the police moved to register FIRs in these cases

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