By Indradeep Bhattacharya

Several major global media outlets have called out Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his hate speech-laden public address at Rajasthan’s Banswara on Sunday.

Speaking at a pre-poll rally in the southern Rajasthan town at the height of election frenzy in India, Modi brought out the most trusted weapon in his repertoire — anti-Muslim hate. He said, “When they (the Congress) were in power, they said that Muslims had the first right to the properties of the state. This means that they would collect these properties and give them to the ones who have more kids (insinuating Muslims). They will give it to the ghusapethyon (infiltrators). Do you want to give away your hard-earned money to the intruders? This is what the Congress manifesto says — the amount of gold owned by our mothers and daughters will be measured, collected and distributed. They will distribute this wealth among those… the Manmohan Singh government had said Muslims had the first right to the properties. These urban naxals will not even spare the mothers and sisters or their mangalsutra. They will go that far.”

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In one sweeping statement that hinges on several falsehoods, the Prime Minister of the country referred to the around 200 million Muslims living in India as ‘infiltrators’ and mocked them as “those who have more kids.” If the sheer crassness of the phrase “jinke zyada bachche hain‘ coming from a head of state was shocking, equally stunning was how he indulged in scaremongering at the expense of Muslims by painting them as the devil out to devour the wealth of the country’s majority Hindus. Not just any wealth, but ‘mangalsutra’, a necklace worn by Indian brides, which carries religious connotations. All this, because he sees electoral gains in alienating Muslims and deepening the already vicious communal divide in the country that he ‘serves’ as Prime Minister, or, as he once called himself, the ‘pradhan sevak’.

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