India, Jan. 20 -- Hate speeches will harm democracy: Prof Apoorvanand
A rise hate speech in the past few years and particularly after nation-wide protests against Citizenship (Amendment) Act has evoked serious reactions from political parties and people in large numbers. Political parties, both ruling and the opposition, blame each other for delivering hate speeches, although the Centre had told Supreme Court in October 2019 that there had been an "exponential rise in hate speech" besides fake news in the past few years. The Centre has also sought three additional months to come up with revised rules to prevent such mischief.
Four months have passed but nothing seems to have changed. BJP's West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh's hate speech is th...