Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vast domestic agenda is in jeopardy after his party failed to win an outright majority in Parliament for the first time in a decade, forcing it to work with a coalition of parties.
Over the last decade that Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has ruled with absolute majorities, its advocated for — and pushed through — laws that critics say have furthered its divisive Hindu majoritarian goals.
In 2019, the government scrapped the semiautonomous status of the Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir and passed an amendment to the citizenship law that discriminates against Muslims.