PM needs to break 'deafening silence' on religious intolerance: NYT

February 06, 2015 22:53

Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to break his "deafening silence" on religious intolerance, The New York Times said in an editorial today.

A day after President Barack Obama had said that religious "intolerance" in India would have shocked Mahatma Gandhi, the newspaper's Editorial Board asked in an editorial titled 'Modi's Dangerous Silence', "What will it take for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak out about the mounting violence against India's religious minorities?"

"Mr Modi needs to break his deafening silence on religious intolerance," it said.

The attacks at Christian places of worship have prompted "no response" from the man elected to represent and to protect all of India's citizens, the editorial observed, adding that nor has the Prime Minister addressed the "conversion" to Hinduism of Christians and Muslims.

"Mr Modi's continued silence before such troubling intolerance increasingly gives the impression that he either cannot or does not wish to control the fringe elements of the Hindu nationalist right," it added.

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