People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday alleged that hate speech and discrimination against minorities have become increasingly normalised in the country.
“This is what the BJP’s so-called Viksit Bharat looks like: hate speech normalized to the extent that even unborn Muslim children are threatened. Homes and mosques are demolished with impunity, while Muslims, Christians, Dalits and Adivasis are increasingly pushed to the margins,” she said in a post on X.
The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister expressed concern over what she termed the growing acceptance of divisive rhetoric, warning that silence in the face of such statements could further deepen social divisions.
“Ongoing silence in the face of such rhetoric only emboldens those who seek to divide our society,” she said.
Mehbooba was responding to an alleged hate speech by Hindu Raksha Dal president Lalit Sharma in Dehradun’s Bairagiwala area.
