[webartisan]

Sure, again, context matters. A lot of Delhi, and probably a lot more of Mumbai is just illegal construction, if you were to apply the law squarely, a large part of the cities would be rubble.

You're (perhaps rather knowingly) ignoring the nuance here.

[actuator]

Agreed but this is not unique to the current federal government at all. Whoever is in power at the state or national level has used this power for their benefit.

Case in point, office of a prominent Indian actor was broken by a state government which is the political rival of the government at national level, even after a high court order preventing them from doing so.

[imdhmd]

I seriously don't want to engage with whataboutry, but I'm going to reply to you with the tiniest hope that you might be willing to listen to reason.

So first, i agree with you that power structures have always taken advantage of their position to shutdown their opposition.

The reason that this has become significant enough in India for someone to take note and take action, is because of the blatant and frequent application of authority in this manner and that too targeted towards a specific community. The scale is enormous and is not showing any signs of decreasing.

[actuator]

> engage with whataboutry,

If you really want to discuss with civility, don't start with an accusation. I agreed with the commenter that there is definitely political motive to these demolitions and it is definitely not right to not follow procedure even if these are illegal. My point is against this belief that this is something recent. It has been always like this, no matter who is in power. It might have increased or decreased; that I don't know without stats. I am old enough to have seen media being used to create narratives like WMD in Iraq to know not to go forward with the narrative pushing in media.

> The reason that this has become significant enough

> The scale is enormous and is not showing any signs of decreasing.

There is also a narrative in media that these communal incidents have increased recently. When I looked at data on this the last time in 2020, the crime record data pointed to much higher rates of communal violence in 80s and 90s than 2010s, so I will not be sure if it has increased or is it just fanned more in media.

I am also aware it can very well be that cases are being registered less that's why the stats seem lower.

> that too targeted towards a specific community

This is something I am concerned about though. There seems to be definitely increase in overt bigotry.

[webartisan]

Why would you compare violence from 1980's to 2020? You realise thats a gap of 40 years?

It's almost as if you're trying to find a previous period with same communalism rates going back as far as you need to to prove point.

In terms of trends in the 20th century, there's been a clear noticeable jump after the current government came in, which is what should matter.

[actuator]

> Why would you compare violence from 1980's to 2020? You realise thats a gap of 40 years?

I said 90s too which is a gap of 20 years. I skipped 00s because I don't recall the data completely now, but I will check.

> In terms of trends in the 20th century, there's been a clear noticeable jump after the current government came in, which is what should matter.

00s had clearly more terror incidents in India than 10s. There were several major metros and big cities hit with blasts every year. So, one form of communal violence has definitely gone down. Even early half of 10s had much more of these than the latter half. There is a whole Wiki article that lists these incidents, you can have a look at that.