evidence: Earlier this year, dozens of rallies took place across the state of Maharashtra, attended by leaders from Modi’s BJP, demanding laws against inter-religious marriages. As I went around the city, reporting and documenting these rallies, I witnessed the same hostility towards Muslims that I witnessed in Gujarat in 2002, when Modi was the state’s chief minister and more than 800 Muslims were killed under his watch. At the rallies, I witnessed young children holding placardscalling for the elimination of traitors, showing the "Abduls" their place, asking for young women to watch out for the trap laid out by the ones wearing beards and skull caps.