WNAM REPORT: The Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), Islamabad, launched a landmark report on discrimination and hate crimes against minorities and lower castes in India, titled “Annual Report: Hate Tracker 2025”. The event was attended by senior diplomats, scholars, researchers, journalists, and students from various universities.
The report covers patterns of persecution against religious minority communities and lower castes in India, which, according to the report, deepened across institutional, legal, and physical registers in 2025. It states that the year was defined not by isolated incidents but by the systematic convergence of state power, legal infrastructure, and extrajudicial networks in the targeting of Muslim, Christian, and Dalit populations.
President IRS, Ambassador Jauhar Saleem, opened the discussion by highlighting the issue of revisions to voter rolls in multiple states in India during recent elections. The report features political exclusion of minorities in 2025, “highlighting the scale of this concern in Bihar, noting that Muslims represented 16.9% of the population but accounted for around 33% of reported voter deletions, alongside analysis indicating a 52% higher probability of removal for Muslim voters,” said Ambassador Saleem.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Gregory Stanton, Founding President of Genocide Watch, said that “the report systematically documents the neo-Nazism that is in its initial phase in India.” While commending the unbiased approach of the report, he also sought permission to publish the report on the Genocide Watch website.
The report documents structural discrimination against minorities and lower castes, citing the demolition of homes, shops, and places of worship across India. According to the report, in 2025, approximately 25,110 Muslim-owned properties, including homes, shops, madrassas, dargahs, and mosques, were demolished. The report also records around eight churches being vandalised and more than 50 mosques being destroyed.
The Annual Hate Tracker Report also underlines the geographical concentration of hate crimes against minorities and lower castes in India. According to the report, throughout 2025, the majority of incidents were reported in Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal. Except for the Union Territory of Puducherry, where the BJP has a thin voter base, the report records hate crimes across India, signalling, according to the report, a deepening influence of Hindutva across the country.
