Former President Obama has called on Indian PM Modi to protect the rights of minorities, especially Muslims. Indian officials have responded to Obama's comments by questioning the treatment of Muslims during his presidency.
Officials in India, the world’s largest democracy, deny accusations that Muslims and other religious minorities have been treated unequally under Modi, who became prime minister in 2014., human rights groups and others point to the end of autonomy for Kashmir, India’s only majority-Muslim state, as well as a citizenship law that the United Nations described as “fundamentally discriminatory” over the exclusion of Muslim migrants.
Biden said Thursday that he and Modi had discussed “democratic values” during their meeting. The two leaders appeared at a news conference during which Modi, who rarely takes questions from journalists and has never held a solo news conference, was asked about the accusations of religious discrimination by his government.
“Democracy is our spirit,” he said. “Democracy runs in our veins. We live democracy. And our ancestors have actually put words to this concept, and that is in the form of our constitution.” His remarks were echoed on Monday by Union Minister Hardeep Puri, who told reporters that India was not just any democracy but the “mother of democracy.” He highlighted the diversity of the South Asian country of 1.4 billion people and said its minorities were “safe.”
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