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Police in southern India are investigating a senior leader of the countrys ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over a political video targeting Muslims, as critics accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi of running an increasingly divisive re-election campaign.. ..
The party has long denied being anti-Islam but opposition politicians and prominent Muslims have warned that its leaders have been deploying openly divisive rhetoric to turbo-charge their campaign.. ..
Critics saidCongress manifesto makes no mention of redistributing wealth to Muslims, while Congress lawmaker Manickam Tagore said the video was a blatant demonization of minorities by ruling BJP, and urged the Election Commission to address its divisive tactics.. ..
Many of Indias more than 200 million Muslims have expressed fear at the prospect of Modis re-election, and critics said the video fits a pattern of openly Islamophobic rhetoric during the BJPs campaign.. ..
That video echoed similar comments by Modi, who sparked a row over hate speech last month while campaigning in BJP-ruled Rajasthan state, when he accused Muslims who have been present in India for centuries of being infiltrators who deliberately have large families to outgrow the majority Hindu population.. . Modis speech ignited widespread anger among Muslim leaders and opposition politicians and calls for election authorities to investigate..
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