In India, the Narendra Modi government informed the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 25th) that in the last three years there has been an increase of 41% in incidents that promote communal, ethnic and racial violence.

According to the report of National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), presented by the Home Minister of India, Ganga Ram Ahirwar in the House, 336 incidents of violence took place in various communities related to religion, race or birthplace in the year 2014. In 2016, the number of such incidents increased to 475.

Ahirwar was answering a question related to the violence being done by the cow guards and preventing them from the government.

Ahirwar said in the House that the government does not have the figure of violence related to the cow guards, but there is a figure of violent incidents of raising communal, ethnic or racial racialism.

According to the figures given by Ahirwar, such incidents in the states increased by 49 percent. In the year 2014, there were 318 such incidents in the states which increased to 474 in 2016. At the same time in all the Union Territories including Delhi, there was a huge reduction in such incidents. There were 18 such incidents of violence in the capital and union territories in 2014, but only one incident occurred in the year 2016.

Increasingly, violent incidents that promote communal, ethnic and racial discrimination in Uttar Pradesh have increased. Such incidents in Uttar Pradesh increased by 346 percent in three years. There were 26 such incidents in Uttar Pradesh in 2014, and 116 such incidents were taken in 2016. There were only four such incidents in Uttarakhand in 2014, but in the year 2016 there were 22 such incidents. That is, such incidents in Uttrakhand increased by 450 percent.

In West Bengal, 20 such incidents of violence were registered in 2014, while in the year 2016, there were 53 such incidents registered with 165 percent increase. Five in 2014 in Madhya Pradesh while in 2016, 26 such incidents took place.Three in 2014 in Haryana and in 2016 there were 16 such incidents.There was no such incident in Bihar in 2014, but there were eight such incidents in 2016.

Ahirwar told in Parliament that the central government is not considering any new stringent law against mobs lining.

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