The Guardian criticizes Indian PM’s statement “India is the Mother of Democracy”

The Guardian has published a new report in which it criticised the Indian PM’s statement that his country is “The mother of democracy in the world”, when Muslims are being killed and harassed by the police and Muslim students are victims to maltreatment in schools.

The Indian journalist, Rana Ayyub, who wrote the article said that “Muslims in India are not just humiliated on the streets, they are being demonised and vilified on the big screen. Modi has praised and defended two films that have been criticised as deeply Islamophobic, The Kashmir Files and The Kerala Story, in his election rallies.”

Ayyub added that “Over the past year, through his much-publicised state visit to the United States and through his much talked-about international trips, including the G7 meetings, Modi has extolled the virtues of democracy, of a secular and inclusive nation, paying obeisance to Mahatma Gandhi at every available opportunity.”

She stressed that “But this grandstanding is, in fact, a diabolic facade. The ugly reality of present-day India is that minorities are under relentless attack.”

The India journalist cited an example of the anti-Muslim hatred saying that “On 31 July, a railway police constable, Chetan Kumar Singh, opened fire on board a long-distance train, first killing his senior officer then proceeding to kill three Muslim passengers.”

She continued that “After shooting them, he stood by a profusely bleeding corpse and invoked Modi and his Hindu nationalist ally, Yogi Adityanath, in a rant during which he said: “If you want to live and vote in Hindustan [India], I am telling you, it’s only Modi and Yogi, these two people.”