Indian deputy IT minister looks over social media after Jehovah’s Witnesses attack

• Indian deputy IT minister looks over social media after Jehovah’s Witnesses attack.
• Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was attempting to undermine the state’s stability.
• The minister’s attorney will handle the criminal case the Kerala police filed.

Police on Tuesday launched an inquiry into the deputy minister of information technology in India for allegedly inciting religious intolerance on social media following bombings at a Jehovah’s Witnesses gathering in the southern state of Kerala.

Three people were killed and fifty injured when homemade bombs detonated on Sunday, targeting a three-day festival hosted by a Christian-based religious movement a few kilometers northeast of Kochi.

In the state where Jehovah’s Witnesses are heavily represented, more than 2,000 people attended the convention.

Following the man’s posting of a video in which he claimed responsibility for the attack and charged the religious group with being anti-national, police detained him.

Rajeev Chandrashekhar, a minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, denounced the blast and charged Kerala’s ruling Communist party of arming radical groups like Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist militant group in a social media post shortly after the explosions.

Chandrashekhar quoted Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state of the United States, in 2011 saying, “You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them to bite only your neighbors.”

“You know, those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard eventually,” the user wrote, including the hashtags #KochiTerrorAttacks and #HamasTerrorists.

According to media reports, Khaled Mashal, the former leader of Hamas, practically spoke at a demonstration in Kerala last week organized by a local Muslim group advocating for sympathy with Gaza.

Millions of Hindus, Muslims, and Christians live in Kerala, and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan claimed that Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was attempting to undermine the state’s stability.

Chandrashekhar made false claims, according to Vijayan, that the Kerala government had approved anti-Israel protests.

The minister’s attorney will handle the criminal case the Kerala police filed, according to Chandrashekhar’s aide.

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