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‘Infiltrators’: Modi accused of anti-Muslim hate speech amid India election

India’s Prime Minister is being accused of hate speech for comments he made about Muslims at an election rally on Sunday. Nearly a-billion people are eligible to cast ballots during the six weeks of voting, which started on Friday. Modi is seeking a third term. The Indian government has failed to give visas to Al Jazeera’s correspondents to cover this story. Therefore, our correspondents are covering the election from outside the country. Al Jazeera’s Hamza Mohamed reports. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ Check out our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/aljazeeraenglish/ Download AJE Mobile App: https://aje.io/AJEMobile #India #NarendraModi #Modi […]

An interview with Ravish Kumar | The Listening Post

India is creeping closer to a general election next year at a time that the mainstream media there is growing more and more toxic. That assessment comes from one of its most prominent journalists, Ravish Kumar, who spent nearly 30 years in the studios of NDTV, a national news channel that stuck to a centrist line while other channels veered to the right – either willingly or under pressure from the government of Narendra Modi and his party – the BJP. Here at the Listening Post we’ve documented that shift – TV hosts getting louder, more sycophantic, more anti-Muslim by the day – effectively proving Ravish Kumar’s argument. He spoke […]