In some countries, the coronavirus pandemic appears to have enhanced national unity and solidarity, in others it has exposed deep fault lines. In India the crisis has hit the poorest migrant workers disproportionately hard, and it has also deepened tensions between the Hindu majority and Muslim minority. Is that the fault of the Hindu nationalist BJP government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to general secretary of the BJP Ram Madhav. Is prime minister Modi stoking communal tensions even in a national emergency? Show less