Religious tension rises in India
The Hindu nationalist government in the powerful state of Gujarat, western India is conducting a census of minority populations that could help target persecution, it’s been claimed. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been trying to collect data on religious minorities in its stronghold state for a decade.
The BJP has formed a commission to study demographic patterns in the state since India’s Independence in 1947. But social activists have told us that the panel could target the minorities and ‘add to the already existing fear among these groups’.
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