Tag: communal violence

By CSSS Team The build up to the 18th Lok Sabha election witnessed communal churning in India. According to the monitoring of Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, in February alone, the media reported ten communal riots, nine minor and one major riot. The communal riots left over 153 injured and six dead. It appears that these communal riots were aimed at polarizing people along religious lines. Notably, all the ten communal riots took place in BJP ruled states. Along with communal riots, discriminatory laws targeting the freedom of religion...