Muslims express fear and cautious hope for Modi era

AHMEDABAD: Millions of India’s Muslims fear Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi’s landslide election will fuel religious discrimination, intolerance and maybe even bloodshed, but some are also prepared to give him a chance.

The right-wing hardliner stormed to victory at the polls, throwing the left-leaning secular Congress from office and handing his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a powerful mandate for promised sweeping reforms.