India Hate Lab

On the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, join us for powerful conversations between human rights leaders and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi (@ibramxk), one of the world’s foremost historians and leading antiracist scholars. The event will feature a conversation between Dr. Kendi, CSOH Executive Director @raqib_naik and leaders of global human rights organizations examining how Great Replacement Theory has moved from the margins to become one of the most dominant and dangerous political forces of our time, fueling authoritarian movements, mass violence, and the erosion of democratic norms across the globe. Drawing on Dr. Kendi’s newest book, Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age, the discussion will uncover the theory’s roots and explore how to confront it. 📅 Saturday, March 21 Register: csohate.org/event/chain-of… #ibramxkendi #chainofideas #grt #racism

According to a new India Hate Lab (IHL) report, 1,318 hate speech events targeting religious minorities were documented across India in 2025, that’s an average of about four videos, speeches, or rallies EVERY DAY, in which dehumanising or inflammatory language was publicly used.

According to India Hate Lab, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami emerged as the most prolific hate-speech actor in 2025, with 71 speeches, followed by Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad chief Pravin Togadia scroll.in/article/109084… Ratna Singh reports

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma delivered 32 hate speeches at in-person events in 2025, ranking among the top 20 leaders nationally for the highest number of hate speeches. More: tinyurl.com/2zfw3w93 / tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad

As India prepares to host the AI Impact Summit 2026, @csohate and @internetfreedom today released a policy report examining the stark disconnect between India's official AI rhetoric and the ground reality of AI-enabled hate, discrimination, surveillance, repression and violence against minority and marginalized communities that is occuring in an overall enviroment of democratic backsliding.

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Hate speech incidents surged sharply across Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and BJP led National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-governed regions between 2023 and 2025, while opposition-ruled states witnessed an overall decline during the same period. In 2023, BJP- and NDA-led states recorded 453 hate speech events, accounting for 68% of all documented incidents. This figure nearly doubled in 2024 to 881 incidents amid the general election cycle. In 2025, despite the absence of nationwide parliamentary elections, hate speech incidents in BJP- and NDA-ruled states and centrally administered territories rose further to 1,164 events, reflecting a sustained and deepening entrenchment of organized hate speech ecosystems in BJP-controlled regions. By contrast, opposition-ruled states recorded 170 hate speech events in 2023, which increased to 234 incidents in 2024, largely driven by election-related mobilization, but declined to 154 incidents in 2025. This decline corresponds with the absence of a general election cycle, which had significantly intensified political mobilization and communal rhetoric nationwide in the previous year, as well as a modest increase in political will reflected in greater police enforcement against hate speech and incitement to violence. Notably, two opposition-ruled states diverged from the broader downward trend. Congress-ruled Karnataka saw an increase from 32 hate speech incidents in 2024 to 40 in 2025, while Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-ruled Punjab recorded a rise from 7 to 13 incidents over the same period, underscoring that Hindu nationalist mobilization remains active even outside BJP-governed states. #India #BJP #hindunationalism

India Hate Lab’s 2025 report documents 1,318 hate speech events, an average of four per day, marking a 97 per cent increase from 2023 and a 13 per cent rise from 2024. Of these, 98 per cent targeted Muslims, accounting for 1,289 incidents, while 12 per cent targeted Christians, totalling 162 incidents. Most cases were recorded in BJP-ruled states, which accounted for 88 per cent of the total.

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Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and New Delhi emerged as the top five hotspots for hate speech in 2025, accounting for 65 percent of the 1,318 recorded in-person hate speech events. All five jurisdictions were governed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or in coalition with National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners. tinyurl.com/2zfw3w93 tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad

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We are glad to see media attention on this armed monk group in Uttar Pradesh that is openly advocating for arming Hindus and inciting violence against Muslim and Christian minorities. We issued an alert under our EWER Initiative in December 2025. More details below 👇🏽

Sadhvi Saraswati, head of the Sanatan Dharma Prachar Seva Samiti in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh (5); Kalicharan Maharaj, religious preacher from Maharashtra (5); Sadhvi Samahita, religious leader from Delhi (3); Swami Sachidanand, Arya Samaj religious preacher (2); Bal Vidushi Laxmi, religious storyteller from Uttar Pradesh (2), Swami Darshan Bharti, founder of the Dev bhoomi Raksha Abhiyan Sangathan in Uttarakhand (2); Swami Dipankar (2); Sadhvi Ranjana (2) and Anupamanand Giri (2). tinyurl.com/2zfw3w93 tinyurl.com/3t9bfwad

Other highly active religious figures included Dhirendra Shastri, leader of Bageshwar Dham in Madhya Pradesh (13 speeches); Sangram Bapu Bhandare, a religious preacher from Maharashtra (10 speeches); Devkinandan Thakur, spiritual preacher (5 speeches);

These are the top religious leaders who deliver anti-Muslim and anti-Christian hate speeches in India. We documented 145 hate speech incidents involving Hindu religious leaders and monks, representing a 27 percent increase from the 114 incidents recorded in 2024.

In July 2025, we issued a warning under our Early Warning, Early Response (EWER) initiative over the rising hate and violence targeting Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam, enabled by Sarma and his party. x.com/indiahatelab/s…

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma delivered 16 anti-Muslim hate speeches at in-person events in 2025. This follows 36 hate speeches in 2024 and 16 in 2023, underscoring the central role he has played in enabling anti-Muslim hate and incitement to violence in Assam and beyond. Sarma is frequently invited to speak in other states, where he delivers such hate speeches primarily at election rallies as the ruling BJP’s star campaigner. More: indiahatelab.com