Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dismissed claims of discrimination towards religious minorities in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a response to British daily Financial Times, he noted that there is a whole ecosystem which is levelling these allegations against his government by using the freedom available in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere is a whole ecosystem that is using the freedom available in our country to hurl these allegations at us every day, through editorials, TV channels, social media, videos, tweets, etc,\u201d Modi told the Financial Times (FT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prime minister also highlighted the Parsi community, a micro-minority in India, saying their success shows that there is no discrimination towards any religious minority in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDespite facing persecution elsewhere in the world, they have found a safe haven in India, living happily and prospering,\u201d Modi said, adding this shows that the Indian society itself has no feeling of discrimination towards any religious minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prime minister also cited the long history of outsiders, including the British, who underestimated India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn 1947, when India became independent, the British who left made many dire predictions about India\u2019s future. But we have seen that those predictions and preconceptions have all been proven false,\u201d he said and added his government will also prove similar perceptions wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Confident of victory in 2024\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Modi said his fellow citizens have come to realise that the country is poised for a giant leap and want their aspirations to take wings at the earliest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said Indians now appreciate and acknowledge that the country is on the cusp of \u201ctake-off\u201d and want \u201cthis flight to be expedited\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday, the people of India have very different aspirations from the ones they had 10 years ago,\u201d the prime minister said in the interview, adding, \u201cThey realise that our nation is on the cusp of a take-off. They want this flight to be expedited, and they know the best party to ensure this is the one which brought them this far.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday dismissed claims of discrimination towards religious minorities in India. In a response to British daily Financial Times, he noted that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[1032,73,1033,839,2863],"class_list":["post-48421","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-india","tag-latestnews","tag-pm-modi","tag-religious-minorities-in-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48423,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48421\/revisions\/48423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}