India’s elections matter to Philadelphians, and here’s why

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People in India start voting on April 19, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the front-runner. It's up to the diaspora in Philly and elsewhere to refute his divisive and violent politics.

People in India start voting on April 19, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the front-runner. It's up to the diaspora in Philly and elsewhere to refute his divisive and violent politics.

But we are also worried about how this election will be received in our adopted city of Philadelphia., pitting people from different faiths against each other. Advocating the idea of India as a pure Hindu nation — one in which Muslims, Christians, and other minorities are outsider, second-class citizens — Hindu nationalism has inspired numerous hate killings in India, and animated polarizing debates in the U.S.

In January, Modi consecrated the Ram temple, a sprawling complex built directly over the ruins of a mosque that had been destroyed by Hindu nationalist mobs in 1992. In the riots following the mosque’s destruction,, most of them Muslims. That such a temple was celebrated in our city signals a lack of respect for the full diversity of the Indian American community, which includes numerous Muslim families.

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