I'm sure members of the committee know of the worrying trends around religious garb and the limitations around the wearing of the hijab by Muslim minorities in Karnataka in southern India. There have been a number of wide-scale cases in which the Indian government has used politically motivated tax fraud allegations to target anyone who is independently voicing their concerns about the human rights abuses in the country.
It's a worrying trend that we're seeing. A number of examples come to mind every day. There's the statement by Prime Minister Modi about farm workers. At the time, he was talking about the farm workers' protest, which was a largely peaceful protest by farm workers, and calling them “parasites”. I think that is emblematic of a general approach that the Modi government has towards anyone voicing a dissenting opinion on their policies.