Minorities in Modi’s India are victims of systematic violence, “Wall Street Journal”
Washington: The renowned American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” has written in its report that along with Muslims in India, the Christian minority is also suffering from the worst situation.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the newspaper, while exposing the “BJP” government headed by Narendra Modi, wrote that India’s Hindutva mission has become a cause of shame on the global level. It has written that the Modi government is fascist as it is only the spokesperson of the Hindu majority.
The newspaper said the BJP government is discriminating against minorities on religious and ethnic grounds, adding there has been a dangerous increase in violence against religious minorities in India during Narendra Modi’s tenure. It said after 2014, Muslims in Modi’s India have been discriminated against in terms of residence, employment, education and even the right to vote due to which India’s secular claim has been exposed.
The Wall Street Journal has written in the report that despite being only 2.3 percent of the population, Christians are also under the influence of Hindutva violence as only in 2025, 706 anti-Christian incidents were recorded. There were attacks on churches, violence at religious services, vandalism of Christmas symbols, but Modi remained deliberately silent, it said, adding Modi’s failure to condemn the attacks is a clear official signal to extremist Hindu elements to continue their work.
The newspaper wrote anti-conversion laws and biased state behaviour are providing practical protection to violence against minorities. The report says that secularism in India is now just a symbolic slogan while minorities are victims of systematic violence across the country.
It said Modi’s India is not a full-class democracy, but a full-class majority state. It said fear has become the identity of minorities in India and violence against religious minorities is becoming the norm under Narendra Modi.
The report further states that in 2025, Christmas in India became a national flashpoint for religious extremism.
