India
Data provided by the Union Home Ministry proves that in UPA-I and II, India witnessed more riots and more people fell victim to communal clashes and lost lives than NDA regime so far
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government has emerged as less hostile to the minorities and marginalised than the ‘liberal’ UPA regime that ruled India from 2004 to 2014.
According to the Union home ministry’s reply to an RTI query on communal riots in India between 2004 and 2017, the NDA regime fared better on all counts, such as the number of incidents of communal violence, number of people killed and those injured.
The current NDA regime fares better even when compared to the NDA-1, UPA-1 and UPA-2 regimes in terms of the number of people killed in communal riots.
These figures came to light as part of the home ministry's reply to Noida-based IT professional and RTI activist Amit Gupta. While Gupta had also asked for data on people arrested and convicted for communal riots, the ministry said the data pertaining to this was maintained by the state governments.
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