No 'major communal riot in seven/eight years'? not quite, says data

The National Crime Records Bureau showed 5,415 communal riots reported between 2014 and 2020

Union Minister of Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, on April 28, told a visiting European Union (EU) delegation that there has been “no major incident of communal violence in the past seven/eight years” under the National Democratic Alliance government in India, reported a daily.

“There have been some isolated incidents, and in these, the Narendra Modi government has taken strong and effective action against the perpetrators, without consideration of religion, caste or community,” Naqvi was quoted as saying.

He said this during a discussion with a six-member delegation that included the EU’s Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore on