As the world’s most populous democracy gears up for protracted general elections, the ghost of mass murder dogs the two main parties.
The frontrunner for prime minister (according to polling at the time of writing), Narendra Modi, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was Chief Minister of Gujarat in 2002 when over 1,000 Muslims were massacred. State complicity has been convincingly alleged by survivors and those who documented the bloodshed.
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