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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | US panel proved wrong, communal incidents actually dipped in 2014 -Bharti Jain

US panel proved wrong, communal incidents actually dipped in 2014 -Bharti Jain

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published Published on May 7, 2015   modified Modified on May 7, 2015
-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: Contrary to an assessment by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) that communal incidents in India witnessed a rising trend in 2014, official data released by the home ministry showed that such attacks were down to 644 from 823 in 2013.

Also, the US panel's claim in its 2015 report that religiously-motivated and communal violence in India had increased over three consecutive years was proved wrong with the number of incidents in 2014 being the lowest in the past three years.

The USCIRF had, in its report on international religious freedom released last week, noted that religious minorities in India were exposed to "derogatory" comments by leaders of the ruling BJP as well as "violent attacks and forced conversions by the RSS/VHP since the Narendra Modi government took over last year". It also slammed the "ghar wapsi" campaign and accused "Hindu nationalist groups" of offering monetary inducements not only to Muslims and Christians to convert to Hinduism but also to Hindus carrying out such "forced" conversions.

According to figures for communal incidents in the first two months of 2015, while 72 incidents were recorded in January, they fell to 47 in February. Maharashtra continued to account for the highest incidence of communal violence with 21 attacks in January and 10 in February, while the corresponding figures for Rajasthan were three and six respectively. Bihar also remains a cause for concern with 61 incidents in 2014, 12 in January 2015 and six in February 2015.

The US panel, which makes policy recommendations to the US president and Congress, was also proved wrong on its assessment regarding trends of communal violence in many Indian states through 2012, 2013 and 2014. According to the panel, the states that tend to have the greatest number of incidents were Andhra Pradesh, UP, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Rajasthan.

However, as per home ministry data, Chhattisgarh recorded no incident, while Andhra Pradesh witnessed five incidents and Odisha just three. Though incidents were the highest in UP at 133, this was a big fall from the 247 incidents recorded in 2013.

Communal violence in Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, however, witnessed a rise in 2014 as compared to 2013.


The Times of India, 7 May, 2015, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/US-panel-proved-wrong-communal-incidents-actually-dipped-in-2014/articleshow/47182300.cms


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