“(The report – RG note) lacks understanding of the social structure of India. We reject it,” said the Indian diplomat. According to him, the State Department report is “a mixture of assumptions, distortions, selective use of facts taken from biased sources and a one-sided consideration of the problems.”
In his speech, Blinken said that India has seen “an alarming rise in anti-sectarian laws, hate speech, and the destruction of homes and places of worship of religious minorities.”