Covid-19 policy: Modi government targeting Muslims to divert backlash: PM

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday slammed as 'racist' the 'Hindutva supremacist ideology' of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government to target Muslims in India, likening it to that of Nazis in Germany.

"The deliberate and violent targeting of Muslims in India by Modi Govt to divert the backlash over its Covid-19 policy, which has left thousands stranded & hungry, is akin to what Nazis did to Jews in Germany. Yet more proof of the racist Hindutva Supremacist ideology of Modi Govt," the PM said in a hard-hitting tweet to take on his Indian counterpart.

The tweet came in the backdrop of the reports that Muslims were discriminated against in the lockdown measures and separate wards were set up for Hindus and Muslims in different Indian hospitals.