Tamil Nadu assembly elections held amid worsening social crisis in India
Assembly elections will be held in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu starting on April 6. The southern Indian states of Kerala and Pondicherry (Puducherry) will go to the polls at the same time, while the eastern states of West Bengal and Assam will be held in phases starting on March 27. The Election Commission of India has stated that election results will be announced on May 2.
Palaniswami with Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam in 2018. (Image Credit: Press Information Bureau on behalf of Prime Minister s Office, Government of India under the ID 129388 and CNR 116815.)
India s BJP rejects allegations of Muslim suppression Politically motivated
In July last year, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India s largest education board, announced that it had cut its 2021 syllabus by 30%.
Government-run schools were no longer required to give lessons on democratic rights, secularism, federalism and citizenship, among other topics. The decision sparked concerns that the omission of such subjects was politically motivated. These concepts lie at the core of the Indian Constitution but have at times come into conflict with the Hindu-majoritarian ideology of the ruling right-wing BJP, Sahil Husain, an education expert, told DW, adding that parties across India s political spectrum have been accused of using education as a means of propagating their agendas.
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India’s Muslim Journalists Are Under Attack
As the mainstream media has consolidated behind the BJP, independent journalism in India has become a dangerous activity. And no group is more vulnerable than Muslim reporters. Members of the National Union of Journalists protest crimes against journalists across the country on July 24, 2020, in New Delhi. (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
In late February 2020, as the novel coronavirus was beginning to spread across the world, Delhi burned.
Shouting slogans while wielding guns, swords, iron rods, and stones, mobs of Hindus and Muslims turned parts of northeast Delhi into a warzone. Homes were destroyed, shops and cars scorched. A body was found in a canal with head injuries; another was stabbed several times. Many were shot, and some had their limbs cut. At least fifty-three people, more Muslims than Hindus, were killed.
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