Modi was running the state government in Gujarat when his government fanned religious hatred leading to one of the worst riots in the state's history. One of th

Modi was running the state government in Gujarat when his government fanned religious hatred leading to one of the worst riots in the state's history. One of the prominent victim of this hate and violence was Bilkis: (TRIGGER WARNING - rape and death) > Bilkis Bano was in a group of 17 people that included her three-year-old daughter, her mother, a pregnant cousin, her younger siblings, nieces and nephews, and two adult men ... On the morning of 3 March, as they set out to go to a nearby village where they believed they would be safer, a group of men travelling in two jeeps stopped them. "They attacked us with swords and sticks. One of them snatched my daughter from my lap and threw her on the ground, bashing her head into a rock." > Bilkis Bano had cuts on her hands and legs. Her attackers were her neighbours in the village, 12 men she had seen almost daily while growing up. They tore off her clothes and several of them raped her. She begged them for mercy and told them she was five months' pregnant, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. Her cousin, who had delivered a baby girl two days earlier while they were on the run, was raped and murdered. Her newborn was killed too. Bilkis Bano survived because she lost consciousness and her attackers left, believing she was dead. Two boys - seven and four - were the only other survivors of the massacre. Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39843555 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39843555 For 15 years Bilkis braved death threats and government intimidation through the police to fight for justice. And eleven people were finally convicted for this rape and massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment. On this year's independence day Modi's party, BJP, in power in Gujarat used their power to curtail the sentences of these convicts and free them. The released convicts were treated like heroes. The BJP / RSS in power right now in India are right-wing religious fundamentalists who want to convert India into a fascist theocracy, where anyone who isn't a Hindu and doesn't believe in their twisted ideology is to be treated as a third-class citizen with limited or no rights (like the "untouchables" as per the regressive caste theory of Hinduism). Indeed, one of the reasons given for releasing these convicts, by a BJP politicians who was on the panel who granted them their freedom was, “They are Brahmins, and as it is Brahmins have good values”. (https://thewire.in/rights/bilkis-rapists-are-brahmins-have-good-values-says-bjp-mla-who-sat-on-panel-that-freed-convicts https://thewire.in/rights/bilkis-rapists-are-brahmins-have-g...) ... Brahmins are one of the communities at the top of the rigid caste hierarchy. And apparently for these religious fundamentalist, even a rapist Brahmin is still a good Brahmin .... this is just one of the example of the sorry state India is in today, under our dear, glorious leader Narendra Modi.