India is constitutionally committed to being a secular, sovereign, socialist, and democratic republic but in reality, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has made India a stooge by following the footsteps of the Hindutva ideologies of RSS.
Historically, the alleged acts of violence and vandalism carried out by Hindu supremacists targeting India’s largest minority Muslim community, but this discrimination has paced up since the inauguration of the Ram Mandir (Temple) on the site of Babri masjid site on 22 January.
Since, the partition of the sub-continent in 1947, Muslims in India have been facing several restrictions and hurdles including freely worshipping at their religious sites. Likewise, Kashmir from 1947 to 2024, is under siege, since the stripping of the special state of Held Valley under the Indian Constitution Article 370, and Article 35, the BJP’s discriminatory policies against Muslims have been exposed in the front world.
New Delhi has been violating the United Nations (UN) resolutions by stripping the special state of Kashmir. In 2023, the murder of Sikh leader and Canadian national Hardeep Singh Nijar in Canada is still being investigated and Ottawa through evidence stated, that the Indian spy agency RAW was involved in the murder of Hardeep Singh.
Such appalling incidents have become frequent during the BJP’s decade-old rule over India. Hindu supremacists allegedly brutally beat up a Muslim man in India and screamed religious sloganeering ‘Jai Shri Ram’, building a narrative of Hindutva ideology in an election year.
Recently, in Pakistan credible evidence, implicating India in the orchestrated assassination of two Pakistani citizens last year within its borders.
Even the Supreme Court of India supported the narrative of the BJP after the snatching of the special state of Kashmir. Thus, the international community including the UN should play its due role in asking and holding accountable the Indian government for its repressive measures against all the minorities in the country including the alleged genocide of Sikhs.
