Organization of Islamic Cooperation says assaults throughout Ram Navami competition have been a ‘vivid manifestation of mounting Islamophobia’ in India.

A outstanding Muslim physique has denounced the “provocative acts of violence and vandalism” through the Hindu competition of Ram Navami in India, which has accused the organisation of an “anti-India agenda”.

In a press release on Tuesday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stated cases of assaults on Muslims through the nine-day competition have been a “vivid manifestation of mounting Islamophobia and systemic targeting of the Muslim community in India”.

India’s international ministry condemned the assertion, saying the OIC confirmed an “anti-India agenda”.

“This is one more example of their communal mindset and anti-India agenda. OIC only does its reputation damage by being consistently manipulated by anti-India forces,” international ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi stated in a press release on Twitter.

Local media studies stated giant processions of individuals carrying tridents, swords, sticks and different weapons handed by means of Muslim neighbourhoods in a number of cities, elevating hate slogans and even setting properties and retailers on hearth in some locations.

According to native media studies, at the very least two folks have been killed within the violence through the competition, together with one within the eastern state of Bihar, the place authorities deployed lots of of riot police and minimize cell web providers to forestall a flare-up.

The Jeddah-based 57-member OIC group stated the violence through the Ram Navami processions noticed the “burning of a madrassa (Muslim school) and its library by an extremist Hindu mob” in Bihar’s Bihar Sharif city.

Similar incidents of violence have been reported from West Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh and different states, resulting in greater than 100 arrests throughout the nation.

Critics say hardline Hindu teams have been emboldened since Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was Gujarat state chief minister throughout large riots there in 2002, was elected prime minister in 2014.

“The OIC General Secretariat calls upon the Indian authorities to take firm actions against the instigators and perpetrators of such acts and to ensure the safety, security, rights and dignity of the Muslim community in the country,” the Muslim physique stated.