A “VIGIL for democracy in India” brought diaspora organisations together in London’s Parliament Square today.

Campaigners from 15 groups condemned hate speech against Muslims by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s decade-long “subversion of the Indian constitution.”

Referring to India’s ongoing general election, South Asia Solidarity Group spokesman Mukti Shah said “This election campaign is marked by an increasingly desperate campaign [by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party], with Modi’s election speeches filled with explicit Islamophobic hatred, lies and incitement to genocide.