BJP Tops India's 'VIP' Hate Pandemic, NDTV Finds
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In the past three and a half months, 'VIP' hate has spiked further above the average by over 160 per cent as polls draw closer.
As another election season looms, hate speech by high ranking politicians is surging - by1,130 per cent since the Modi government came into power in 2014, compared to the UPA-2 regime, an NDTV analysis has found.
In the past three and a half months, 'VIP' hate has spiked further above the average by over 160 per cent as polls draw closer.
The BJP accounts for over 80 per cent of this hate pandemic.
NDTV's 'VIP' hate speech tracker has been chronicling statements, since 2009, by high ranking political functionaries - ministers, Chief Ministers, MPs, MLAs, Governors and party bosses that are clearly communal, casteist, or make calls to violence.
