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Ram Madhav - National General Secretary of BJP, India

Stephen Sackur speaks to the General Secretary of India's BJP government Ram Madhav. The coronavirus pandemic has hit the poorest workers, but has it also stoked communal tensions?

In some countries the coronavirus pandemic appears to have enhanced national unity and solidarity, in others it's exposed deep fault lines. In India the crisis has hit the poorest migrant workers disproportionately hard; it's also deepened tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority. Is that the fault of the Hindu nationalist BJP government? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to General Secretary of the BJP Ram Madhav. Is Prime Minister Modi stoking communal tensions even in a national emergency?

24 minutes

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Tue 2 Jun 2020 20:30

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Presenter Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Ram Madhav

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