evidence: Communal violence under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) increased 28 percent over three years to 2017 –822 "incidents" were recorded that year –but it was short of the decadal high of 943 in 2008, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of home ministry data. [...] As many as 7,484 communal incidents have been reported over the last decade–between 2008 and 2017– or two every days, killing over 1,100 people, according to data released to the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament). The most incidents– 943 –were reported, as we said, in 2008 during the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by the Congress, killing 167 people. The least incidents (580) were reported in 2011.