Thapar should know they are secular.

Karan Thapar is distressed by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's "constant taunting of Muslims". "I can hear echoes of Germany in the 1930s, South Africa in the 1960s and Uganda in the 1970s." Kristallnacht or the 'Night of the Broken Glass' was a pogrom against Jews on 9-10 November 1938 in Nazi Germany. This was followed by extermination of Jews, homosexuals and Roma and others considered to be impure, holocaust. Ironically, the ancestry of Roma people has been traced to northwestern India, DNA. South Africa practised Apartheid, meaning 'apartness' in Afrikaans, which involved segregation of people according to color, with whites as the dominant group, history.com. On segregation, MK Gandhi said in a speech in South Africa on 26 September 1896 that whites wanted to "degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir (blacks) whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness...", HT. Gandhi is called a 'Mahatma' along with a major league baseball executive and a social reformer from Maharashtra, The New India Express. Uganda in the 1970s was when Idi Amin Dada became president and expelled all people of Indian origin who held British passports, wikipedia. Idi Amin had limited education, entered the British Army as an assistant cook, was powerfully built with a big chest, was Uganda's light heavyweight boxing champion and became president through a military coup. In a recent speech Adityanath asked, "Were you getting this ration before 2017? Because back then those saying 'abba jaan' used to digest the ration -- earlier those saying 'abba jaan used to loot jobs meant for the poor'," wrote Thapar. On 7 September 2014, Adityanath claimed, "In places where there is 10-20% minority population, stray communal incidents take place. Where there are 20.30% of them, serious communal riots take place and where they are more than 35%, there is no place for non-Muslims." "So, what does the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president's and PM's silence amount to?" Thapar should know that this government is strictly secular in its repression of the people and its rhetoric against Muslims is to lull Hindus into accepting atrocities committed on them. "India's Enforcement Directorate, a government agency that fights financial crime, searched Harsh Mander's premises on Thursday," BBC. "A writer, researcher and social activist by profession, Mr Mander has been a staunch critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu Nationalist government." You don't have to criticise the Supreme Leader, just helping poor migrants to get home is sufficient crime because it showed up the ineptitude of the government. "Searches by the Income-Tax department at the premises belonging to actor Sonu Sood led to widespread criticism by leaders in political parties like AAP in Delhi and Shiv Sena in Maharashtra," TimesNow. "Bollywood actor Sonu Sood and his associates were involved in Rs 20 crore (Rs 200 million) tax evasion and violation of Foreign Currency Regulation Act (FCRA) while raising funds from abroad, the Income Tax (I-T) department said," Hindustan Times (HT). Unproven allegations. What is his crime? Sood helped "thousands of migrant workers, stranded by Covid-19 lockdown in Mumbai, return home", BBC. "A caravan of misery is winding its way down India's highways as the exodus of migrant workers from it Covid-scarred cities and industrial townships head for home on foot, battered bikes, crammed into backs of trucks any which way they can. All along the 800km, Pune-to-Bhopal stretch of the Mumbai-Agra NH, thousands upon thousands of migrant workers, children in arms, stumbling along, are stretched out in unending lines," Times of India. Sonu Sood was awarded with the SDG Special Humanitarian Action Award by the United Nations Development Porgramme (UNDP), "for helping thousands of migrant workers reach home during lockdown", Zee News. How dare he show up cruel indifference? Red rag to a bull.