Apart from a single tweet after the riots had almost ended, Modi has been publicly silent on the violence. On Monday, India’s top court agreed to hear cases filed by riot victims accusing leaders of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party of hate speech. Some of the victims accuse Kapil Mishra, a local leader of Modi’s party who lost his Delhi state assembly seat in recent elections, of stoking the violence. The violence had largely subsided by Wednesday, but the Indian capital has remained on edge. The violence in India is the latest in a long line of communal clashes that date to the Partition in 1947.

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2020 11:26 UTC