Authorities in BJP-governed states responded to the electoral setback by inventing novel methods to attack Muslims.
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BJP won the vote, but its loss of a majority in the Lok Sabha signals that the politics of hate have a limit.
And the Election Commission of India is allowing it.
Many are comparing India’s upcoming elections to the rigged Olympics in the 2012 film Dictator. They are not wrong.
The CAA’s main message is that Muslims do not belong to India in the same way that Hindus do. But it also goes further.
The temple, built on the ruins of a demolished mosque, is the symbol of India’s transformation into a Hindu nation.
It’s happening in schools and homes. And while Modi’s BJP might gain, generations of India’s Hindus will lose.
Assam state’s leader has blamed Bengali-speaking Muslim vegetable vendors for price spikes. It’s absurd but dangerous.
It’s the latest instance of how in an Islamophobic India, justice and accountability have themselves been derailed.
In the state that Modi is building, no one – not even Hindus he claims to speak for – will have rights. Or a voice.
