A high US official makes the comment through the launch of a report on spiritual freedom globally in 2021.
Some officers in India are ignoring and even supporting rising assaults on folks and locations of worship within the nation, a United States official has stated through the launch of a report on spiritual freedom globally in 2021.
The report launched late on Thursday stated assaults on members of non secular minority communities, together with killings, assaults and intimidation, had occurred all through the final yr in India. These included cow vigilantism – assaults on non-Hindus for allegedly slaughtering cows or buying and selling in beef.
Most Hindus, who account for about 80 p.c of India’s 1.35 billion folks, take into account cows sacred. Many states dominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP) have enacted legal guidelines or toughened previous ones in opposition to slaughtering cows.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated the report confirmed spiritual freedom and the rights of non secular minorities had been underneath menace all over the world.
“For instance, in India, the world’s largest democracy and residential to an amazing range of faiths, we have now seen rising assaults on folks and locations of worship,” Blinken stated.
Rashad Hussain, who leads the US State Division’s efforts to observe spiritual freedom all over the world, stated some Indian officers had been “ignoring and even supporting rising assaults on folks and locations of worship”.
Muslims make up about 14 p.c of India’s inhabitants.
In an announcement posted on Twitter on Friday, India’s overseas ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi stated the feedback made by the US official had been “ill-informed”.
“It's unlucky that vote financial institution politics is being practiced in worldwide relations,” he wrote. “We'd urge that assessments primarily based on motivated inputs and biased views be prevented.”
India incessantly denounces the US Fee on Worldwide Non secular Freedom, an autonomous authorities panel which has repeatedly really helpful that the State Division put India on a blacklist.
The State Division didn't announce new designations on Thursday and it's extremely unlikely that it will take motion in opposition to India, recognized by successive US administrations as a key international accomplice within the face of a rising China.
The BJP authorities, nevertheless, has been accused of championing a collection of measures that critics have referred to as discriminatory in opposition to the minorities, primarily Muslims. The get together denies the allegations.
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