Television footage shows an Indian lawmaker from the Hindu nationalist BJP party apparently trying to force feed a Muslim man during Ramadan, when Muslims around the world fast from dawn to dusk.
The footage caused uproar among secular Congress, the opposing party to India’s ruling BJP, who launched a protest saying the lawmaker violated the man’s religious beliefs.
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