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From Welfare to Expulsion: Bihar’s MCC period rhetoric turns citizenship into a campaign weapon

Three formal complaints filed during the Model Code of Conduct period—against Union Ministers Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and BJP MP Ashok Kumar Yadav—combined with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Siwan speech, reveal a pattern of communal and exclusionary rhetoric that blurred the line between campaign promise and state threat

Why does the PM look the other way when BJP leaders give communal speeches?

BJP politicians are in the limelight for spewing communal speeches that sound like right-(BJP)wing chants

Activists counter call for genocide with a call for secularity

Human rights activists and experts talk about the dangers of increasing hate-speech in India during a press conference organized today

Uttarakhand: Will Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi nee Wasim Rizvi benefit from the FIR against him, or will he be the scapegoat?

Uttarakhand police filed an FIR against Tragi-Rizvi for speaking at the  ‘Dharma Sansad’ that became a platform for Hindutva 'leaders’ to spew anti-Muslim hate speech and call for communal violence

How did Uttarakhand govt allow calls for Muslim genocide in Haridwar?

A ‘Dharma Sansad’ held between December 17-19 was a platform for Hindutva 'leaders’ to spew hate speech and call for communal violence.

Wasim Rizvi converts to Hinduism, continues spewing venom against Islam

Converts at Dasna temple in Ghaziabad, and his name reportedly is "Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi"

Hate Watch: UP Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya continues spewing anti-Muslim venom

Calls Muslims “lungi chaap, jaalidaar topi goondas” and accuses them of “roaming the streets with revolvers in their hands and threatening businessmen” before the 2017 Assembly elections

NCM asks Tripura gov’t to expedite report about alleged vandalism of mosques

CJP had filed a complaint before the Commission on October 29 seeking inquiry into news reports that indicated vandalism of mosques and properties belonging to Muslims.

Hate Watch: UP Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya adding fuel to the communal embers?

Keshav Prasad Maurya seems to have made a bid to share the limelight with his political bosses and perhaps outdo them in some ways by making controversial statements

Hate Watch: Communal “shoot the traitors” slogans raised against Christians in Delhi

Bajrang Dal mobs chanted the call for violence outside a Church, in West Delhi, vandalised the structure, filed counter FIR against Christians

Delhi Assembly committee summons Kangana Ranaut for remarks on Sikhs

Ranaut allegedly “labelled the Sikh Community as ‘Khalistani Terrorists’,” and has been asked to appear before the committee at noon on December 6

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From Welfare to Expulsion: Bihar’s MCC period rhetoric turns citizenship into a campaign weapon

Three formal complaints filed during the Model Code of Conduct period—against Union Ministers Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, and BJP MP Ashok Kumar Yadav—combined with Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s Siwan speech, reveal a pattern of communal and exclusionary rhetoric that blurred the line between campaign promise and state threat

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