Up Election Hate Speech

Four days after a BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh, which is in the midst of an election, faced a police case over a hate speech littered with anti-Muslims slurs, a video of a similarly offensive speech by another MLA from the ruling party is circulating.

A BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh today defended his hate speech, littered with anti-Muslim slur, that has gone viral in the middle of elections.

Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Keshav Prasad Maurya, apparently furious at questions on hate speeches at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad, stopped an interview midway, snatched the reporter's mask and forced the crew to delete footage, BBC has said.

The opposition staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha on Monday after BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, pulled up for delivering hate speeches over the last few days ahead of the Delhi elections, was chosen to deliver a motion of thanks to the President of India.

The first instance of dissent within the Election Commission - and the poll panel's alleged attempts to cover it up - flared up 10 days ago, over an order pertaining to a Rajasthan BJP leader, NDTV has found. As NDTV earlier reported, the same Commissioner dissented with the Commission over clean chits to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief ...

Upset over a series of violations of model code of conduct, the Supreme Court today pulled up the Election Commission of India, and asked a representative to be present in court on Tuesday, to explain its stand. The top court will examine what powers the Election Commission has to punish those making hate speeches along religious lines during poll ...

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath -- who launched the BJP's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh with a rally in Saharanpur -- generated controversy today by linking the Congress candidate to Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar. Congress's Imran Masood, an influential leader from the area, is up against the BJP's sitting lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal in Sahara...

BJP legislator Suresh Rana was today booked by Uttar Pradesh Police on charges of inciting hatred after he said that curfew will be imposed in Kairana, Deoband and Moradabad if he is elected again in assembly polls next month.

A court in Uttar Pradesh has returned the chargesheet filed by police against BJP president Amit Shah for an alleged hate speech he made in April ahead of the national election. The court has faulted the police for a technicality in how the chargesheet was filed; senior police officers say they are studying the judge's comments.

BJP president Amit Shah has been accused of delivering a hate speech in the run up to the national elections by the police in Muzaffarnagar, which was devastated by communal violence last year.

BJP leader Amit Shah has said he would request the Election Commission (EC) to review its order that bans him from addressing rallies in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly making "highly inflammatory speeches" while campaigning.

The Election Commission has issued notice to Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah for his hate speeches in the riot-scarred Muzaffarnagar area in Uttar Pradesh.

Four days after a BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh, which is in the midst of an election, faced a police case over a hate speech littered with anti-Muslims slurs, a video of a similarly offensive speech by another MLA from the ruling party is circulating.

A BJP MLA in Uttar Pradesh today defended his hate speech, littered with anti-Muslim slur, that has gone viral in the middle of elections.

Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Keshav Prasad Maurya, apparently furious at questions on hate speeches at the Haridwar Dharma Sansad, stopped an interview midway, snatched the reporter's mask and forced the crew to delete footage, BBC has said.

The opposition staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha on Monday after BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, pulled up for delivering hate speeches over the last few days ahead of the Delhi elections, was chosen to deliver a motion of thanks to the President of India.

The first instance of dissent within the Election Commission - and the poll panel's alleged attempts to cover it up - flared up 10 days ago, over an order pertaining to a Rajasthan BJP leader, NDTV has found. As NDTV earlier reported, the same Commissioner dissented with the Commission over clean chits to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief ...

Upset over a series of violations of model code of conduct, the Supreme Court today pulled up the Election Commission of India, and asked a representative to be present in court on Tuesday, to explain its stand. The top court will examine what powers the Election Commission has to punish those making hate speeches along religious lines during poll ...

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath -- who launched the BJP's election campaign in Uttar Pradesh with a rally in Saharanpur -- generated controversy today by linking the Congress candidate to Pakistani terrorist Masood Azhar. Congress's Imran Masood, an influential leader from the area, is up against the BJP's sitting lawmaker Raghav Lakhanpal in Sahara...

BJP legislator Suresh Rana was today booked by Uttar Pradesh Police on charges of inciting hatred after he said that curfew will be imposed in Kairana, Deoband and Moradabad if he is elected again in assembly polls next month.

A court in Uttar Pradesh has returned the chargesheet filed by police against BJP president Amit Shah for an alleged hate speech he made in April ahead of the national election. The court has faulted the police for a technicality in how the chargesheet was filed; senior police officers say they are studying the judge's comments.

BJP president Amit Shah has been accused of delivering a hate speech in the run up to the national elections by the police in Muzaffarnagar, which was devastated by communal violence last year.

BJP leader Amit Shah has said he would request the Election Commission (EC) to review its order that bans him from addressing rallies in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly making "highly inflammatory speeches" while campaigning.

The Election Commission has issued notice to Narendra Modi's close aide Amit Shah for his hate speeches in the riot-scarred Muzaffarnagar area in Uttar Pradesh.