The mosques and famous tombs of notable saints in India are being demolished with impunity under the Bharatiya Janata Party BJP-led government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This ongoing encroachment drive is aimed at alienating Indian Muslims and depriving them of their basic right to worship. It also unveils the true anti-Muslim agenda of the fascist BJP government under which events of hatred against Muslims have increased manifolds. The BJP’s extremist pursuit of Hindutva supremacy ever since it took the reins of the government in 2014, has led to several incidents of mob lynching, attacks on mosques and tombs as well as diatribes against Muslims.

Notable international human rights organisation including the Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have called out Indian government in their reports for ostracising minority religious groups by targeting them through several coercive ways. The verdicts given by courts in favour of Muslims are routinely brushed aside which run counter the “Secular India’ claims. The USCIRF has termed India a country that infringes on the rights of Muslims. It has also demanded accountability of India for violating rights of other communities.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan