NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and affiliated teams had been behind most hate speech occasions in opposition to Muslims within the first half of the yr, based on a report which flagged the escalating pattern since Modi rose to energy in 2014.

Around 80 % of the 255 recorded incidents of hate speech in opposition to Muslims happened in states dominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bloomberg reported citing a report launched on Monday by Hindutva Watch, a DC-based analysis group that tracks hate speech and crime in opposition to minorities in India.

Under the BJP, India’s Muslim inhabitants has confronted bias and non secular persecution, which critics say is aiming to marginalise Muslims and remodel India right into a Hindu-dominated nation.

This report is the primary of its type to report cases of anti-Muslim speech after India’s crime bureau discontinued amassing hate crime information in 2017.

Hindutva Watch relied on on-line open-source info to build up information after which used the info scrapping methods to find verified movies of hate crimes. The staff then performed in-depth investigations with the assistance of journalists and researchers, as outlined of their methodology clarification.

The report noticed greater than half of the documented incidents this yr had been performed by the ruling BJP and associates together with the Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Sakal Hindu Samaj.

Those teams have hyperlinks to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, the far-right ideological mentor of (BJP), which was impressed by the Nazis in Germany.

The secretive militia group shaped in 1925 goals to create an ethnic Hindu state. It was briefly banned in 1948 after considered one of its members was suspected of assassinating Mahatma Gandhi, India’s independence motion from the British.

The report revealed that Maharashtra, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat skilled the very best variety of hate speech occasions. Notably, one-third of those documented incidents occurred in states slated to carry legislative elections this yr.