Modi’s Government Taking Hindu Nationalist Agenda To ‘New Level’
- New Freedom House report cites India’s moves against Muslims
- U.S. religious freedom body concerned about citizenship law
A Hindu flag flies on a minaret of a mosque that was burnt during clashes over the new citizenship law in Delhi on Feb. 26.
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India has suffered the biggest decline in civil and political liberties among the world’s largest democracies as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government takes “its Hindu nationalist agenda to a new level,” a new report has found.
A series of moves taken by the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party government since it was re-elected by a sweeping majority in May have hurt the rights of its Muslim minority population, according to the latest global report by Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that conducts researches and advocacy on democracy and human rights.