New Delhi: India rejected the US State Department report on worldwide spiritual freedom and stated it was based mostly on “misinformation and flawed understanding.” According to an announcement launched by the Ministry of External Affairs, spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated, “We are aware of the release of the US State Department 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom. Regrettably, such reports continue to be based on misinformation and flawed understanding.” He additional acknowledged that the report is motivated and biased commentary by some US officers which solely serves to undermine additional the credibility of those reviews. “We value our partnership with the US and will continue to have frank exchanges on issues of concern to us,” the spokesperson stated.
This assertion got here in response to the US State Department 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom the place it alleged excessive handedness in opposition to minorities particularly Muslims by varied state governments in India.
“There were numerous reports during the year of violence by law enforcement authorities against members of religious minorities in multiple states, including plainclothes police in Gujarat publicly flogging four Muslim men accused of injuring Hindu worshippers during a festival in October, and the Madhya Pradesh State government bulldozing Muslim-owned homes and shops following communal violence in Khargone in April,” US report learn.
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“In June, UN special rapporteurs on adequate housing, minority issues, and freedom of religion and belief wrote the government to express their “critical considerations” about the “punitive” demolitions in Khargone, which they stated were “ordered by native governments arbitrarily to punish Muslim minorities and low-income communities.”
 In October, a report drafted by a residents committee acknowledged there have been “multiple instances of apparent police complicity” in violent actions in opposition to protestors, who have been largely Muslim, within the Delhi riots in 2020,” it added.
After the discharge of the report, State Secretary Antony Blinken stated that in India, authorized advocates and religion leaders from throughout the nation’s various spiritual communities condemned a case of maximum hate speech in opposition to Muslims within the metropolis of Haridwar, calling for the nation to uphold its historic traditions of pluralism and tolerance.
Meanwhile, answering a media question over the International Religious Freedom Report on India, a senior US State Department official stated that the official has been saddened to see New Delhi’s title and to see what is printed in in the present day’s report.
