Voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during India's general election, Bhopal, May 7, 2024.
Voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station during India's general election, Bhopal, May 7, 2024. Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) won a third term in office in June 2024. The authorities continued to discriminate against members of minority communities. Officials failed to take adequate action against BJP supporters responsible for attacks, and instead targeted victims of the violence, including through unlawful demolitions of Muslim homes and properties. Government critics faced politically motivated prosecutions under tax and foreign funding regulations, and the draconian counterterrorism law. Indian authorities failed to end the ethnic violence in the northeast state of Manipur, which has killed over 200 people and displaced more than 60,000 since May 2023. Several foreign governments accused Indian intelligence agencies of targeting terrorism suspects and separatist leaders for assassination in Canada,...
