‘We continue to raise issue of communal rhetoric with India’: US Envoy

The top American ambassador in India Elizabeth Zones said on Friday that the US government “will continue to express” concerns about the tone of the Indian election campaign, which borders on racial hatred.
“That’s one of the benefits of this consequential relationship, that we can discuss a great variety of issues; easy issues, difficult issues, issues on which we agree, issues on which we don’t,” she said.
She continued, “We have been discussing this for a long time and will continue to do so.” regarding the communal rhetoric.
The recent poll campaign in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat has devolved into communally charged statements by the BJP. “Because of the chaos, there was no room for development in Gujarat. They attempted communal violence in 2002… we taught them a lesson by locking them up,” Union Home Minister Amit Shah had remarked on November 16.
Also Read Gujarat: 20 years after train carnage, communal fissures run deep in Godhra “People of Gujarat had seen the days when communal riots were common, especially between 1985 and 1995 (under non-BJP governments). Curfew remained imposed for 250 days out of 365 days (a year). Women used to pray for their family members whenever they used to visit the walled city areas,” Shah had said.
Shah said the BJP governments improved the situation as a result of which no one dares to create disturbance now.