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Hate crimes: Report documents 602 hate crimes, 345 hate speech incidents in 1st year of Modi’s third term
A staggering 947 hate-driven incidents have dotted the first year of the third term of the Modi (NDA) regime says a report jointly documented by the APCR and Quill Foundation and released recently
BJP will put an end to Muslim reservations, it’s unconstitutional: Amit Shah, Telangana
Speaking at a public meeting in the state, union Home Minister, Amit Shah attacks the state sanctioned quotas for Muslims as unconstitutional, promises to undue these as the BJP govt has done pre elections in Karnataka
BJP govt in Karnataka drops 182 cases of hate crimes in 4 years: Report
These withdrawals were ordered during the tenure of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa
Hindu “monks” give calls for Hindu Rashtra at an Akhil Bhartiya Hindu Mahasabha event: New Delhi
Demands were made to lay the groundwork for officially declaring India as a Hindu nation
Maharashtra: Hate Campaigns led by Raja Singh & Kalicharan continue to go unchecked
Nanded in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region witnesses one more hate event where a legislator, Raja Singh and controversial religious scion, Kalicharan gave overtly Islamophobic speeches, calling for violence and no FIRs are filed even as a Muslim individual is arrested for protesting the hate
Gujarat: Kajal Hindusthani arrested, sent to judicial custody, booked for delivering anti-Muslim hate speech
Hindusthani has been criss-crossing the country delivering doses of hate from Maharashtra to New Delhi; delivers speech asking Hindus to take up arms in New Delhi even after being first “booked” in Gujarat
Echoes of Hate: Concern mounts as India grapples with hate speech
Hate speech has been reported from three states, and speeches continue with complete impunity. Newer faces emerge each time, continuing with the same diatrib
Prominent leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya and Sadhvi Prachi make statements that are derogatory and perceived as anti-women
While Vijayvargiya states that women dress “vulgarly” and look like “Surpanakha”, Sadhvi Prachi says that Muslim women are helpless as they have to wear black veils in 50 degree heat
Kalicharan endorses violence if committed for protecting religion
Kalicharan is notorious for making hate speech in Maharashtra and despite intimation to the police in the past, no action whatsoever has been taken against him
Yati Narsinghanand calls for unity of the world to destroy Islam
At the Hindu Jagruti Sammelan, he made denigrating comments about women and also egged on Hindu men to lure Muslim women, while still having a Hindu wife.
The contentious route, a common factor in inciting violence during religious processions in India
Institutional amnesia chronically ails the state police! Myriad commissions of inquiry including the seminal Justice DP Madon Commission of Inquiry into the Bhiwandi-Mahad-Jalgaon Riots in 1970 have abjured the police from allowing indiscriminate passage to religious processions; the recommendations of these commissions and the law of the land are however not followed by the police controlled as its actions are by the executive
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