NEW DELHI – Facebook has banned an Indian politician belonging to ruling Bhartya Janta Party (BJP) for spreading hate speech about Muslims.
A Facebook spokesman said, a regional lawmaker for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party, T. Raja Singh, was blocked “for violating our policy prohibiting those that promote or engage in violence and hate from having a presence on our platform.
Raja, who made headlines for reportedly saying that Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar should be shot, will now be put on a Facebook list of “dangerous individuals”.
Meanwhile, prominent Indian daily The Hindu has called for immediate restoration of normalcy in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJ&K). Â Â Â Â
In an article, the paper opines that Indian government’s belief in squeezing Kashmir’s freedom struggle can prove to be highly misplaced.         Â
It notes that illegal detention of senior Kashmiri political leaders for several months has become a testimony to the widespread international concerns about human rights violations by Indian forces in Kashmir.
