Majoritarian ideas of India

Minority-baiting has become the new normal

With public calls for violence, attempts to proscribe their practices, and calls to ban them from temple fairs, the campaign against Muslims is being ratcheted up to dangerous levels. The recent brazen violation of bail terms by Yati Narsinghanand, the head priest of the Ghaziabad’s Dasna Devi temple, at a “Hindu Mahapanchayat” at Burari in north Delhi is a case in point. The priest, who had been arrested for hate speech in December last year and released on bail in February, felt no constraint in a repeat performance with crude inflammatory rhetoric about dangers to Hindus if a Muslim became