India

A harrowing analysis by the team at Sabrang India has revealed a growing number of instances when voters have been publicly threatened by several BJP leaders as well as government officials from voting against them. 

With the BJP fighting to maintain its winning streak after it won 9 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, opposition parties have sped up their campaigning as well, giving a tough fight.

In a letter addressed to all the leaders of INDIA parties, regarding the discrepancies in the voting data released by Election Commission of India (ECI) and non-publishing of actual numbers of registered voters, Mallikarujun Kharge, Congress President has raised serious issues on the dysfunctional partisan conduct of the statutory body

A video shared widely by the TMC purports to show footage taken by a hidden camera in which a Bharatiya Janata Party leader claims that the serious allegations of sexual crimes that had come forth from Sandeshkhali in the last few months were all false.

Reports have come in from Mathura of Muslim voters encountering several difficulties in being able to vote in the country’s second phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections on April 26.

While the Narendra Modi government may have gone out...

The Sahitya Akademi award winner, 85-year-old Gohain has repeatedly been targeted by the CM for his vocal stance against the ruling BJP government. In January, 2024, the chief minister also directed Gauhati University to take action against a teacher who merely displayed support for Gohain.

A report by the Free Speech Collective has warned about losing “last remaining” space for free speech as it notes that a huge number of free speech violations have taken place between January - April 2024.

As Manipur’s ethnic conflict reaches a year since it started last summer, not much has changed in the state, violence rages on as people suffer in relief camps with little medicine, food, or privacy.

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.