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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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Man in Delhi calls for slaughter of 2 lakh Muslims, locals demand National Security Act against him
In Delhi’s Sangam Vihar, a carcass of an animal was found a short distance from a temple. After the incident, a man named Karnail Singh reportedly called out for the slaughter of 2 lakh Muslims. Local Muslims have even been prompted to move out as tensions simmered in the area.
After politicians, hate speech catches on among citizens in Assam
Emon Paul from Assam’s Kokrajhar district has been arrested after he was caught making offensive remarks against the religion of Islam. Paul was arrested after his statements were found to be disturbing the delicate communal harmony of the area. In the video released he has also threatened to kill people. The incident comes only a short while after the chief minister of Assam, Himanta Biswa Sarma made reportedly incendiary remarks on Muslims in Assam.
Once again, Assam CM tries to shake communal sentiment, claims minority community only know how to engage in communal activities
Notorious for his anti-minority speeches, Assam’s chief minister, and BJP leader, Himanta Biswa gave a reportedly communal speech on June 22, 2024. He has claimed that the ‘minority community’ has not acknowledged BJP’s developmental efforts, and is only known to engage in communal activities in the state.
Suresh Chavhanke, notorious for hate speech, lashes out at the Maharashtra government for allocating funds to minorities
Calling minority funds a ‘return gift’ to those who did ‘vote-jihad’ TV news anchors and notorious hate speech giver, RSS member Sursesh Chavhanke calls out the Maharashtra government led by Eknath Shinde.
YouTuber who campaigned with Rajasthan CM, Pawan Sahu uses slur against Hindu voters
After the BJP lost the Lok Sabha seat in Ayodhya, YouTuber Pawan Sahu and TV Actor who played Ram on Ramayana series took to social media to reportedly abuse the Hindu voters of Ayodhya.
Did hate speech deliver victories for the BJP? A constituency-wise analysis
BJP’s star campaigners have been notorious for engaging in dog-whistling and hate speech. Did it work this time? Sabrang India’s analysis shows that over 8 seats in Maharashtra, 4 in UP, 2 in Rajasthan, and several others which saw campaigning by BJP’s big names failed to result in an electoral victory. BJP lost in about 17 seats where it saw these big campaigns that bordered on communal speeches.
Former MP Kirit Somaiya labels Mumbai’s Muslim community as ‘Bangladeshi’
After BJP’s Mihir Kotecha lost in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s Somaiya has taken to blaming the loss on Muslims and has called Muslims from Mankhurd ‘Bangladeshi.’
Himanta Biswa Sarma in latest hate speech blames people of ‘specific religion’ for BJP loss in Nagaland, Meghalaya
The Assam chief minister spoke to the media at the BJP’s state office and says he blames people of a ‘specific religion’ in Nagaland, Manipur, and Meghalaya for the loss of the NDA alliance in these states.
Rising tide of hate speech marks India’s general assembly election campaigns
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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
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The Court exposes the way a regulatory law has become a system of targeted persecution of minorities through arbitrary FIRs under the 1955 law while ignoring the Supreme Court’s binding directives to prohibit group violence
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‘Faith Is Not a Crime’: Mumbai’s Christians rise against Maharashtra’s proposed anti-conversion bill
Peaceful Sunday protests across 35 parishes led by the Bombay Catholic Sabha warned that the so-called ‘Freedom of Religion’ Bill threatens Article 25 rights, risks criminalising compassion, and could become a political tool to harass minority communities
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Due Process Strengthened: Supreme Court mandates written, language-specific grounds for arrest under special laws and general laws
Building on Pankaj Bansal and Prabir Purkayastha judgements, the Court constitutionalised a uniform standard—every arrest, whether under IPC/BNS or special enactments, must be supported by written grounds communicated in the arrestee’s own language, failing which the arrest stands void
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Pakistan denies entry to 14 Hindu devotees in Sikh ‘jatha’ visiting for Guru Nanak Jayanti
Officials at Attari–Wagah reportedly told the pilgrims, “You are Hindu, you cannot go with a Sikh group,” sending them back despite valid travel documents
Rule of Law
Screens of Silence: What NCRB Data Misses about Cybercrime in India
As India’s online world expands, so does the gap between crime and accountability. NCRB data records numbers, but not the reasons behind their soaring increase; besides erasure of reporting of gendered cybercrimes constitute a glaring gap: there is an absence of adequate reportage within NCRB on stalking, cyberbullying, morphing, which are show a mere 5 per cent of rise