By AK Hafiz 

NEW DELHI - The growing attacks against Muslims in India have pushed the largest minority in the South Asian country to an insecure environment because of continuous attacks from hardcover Hindu nationalist groups. 

The latest attack came on Monday when a railway security guard from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) named Chetan Singh shot dead four people including three Muslim passengers on board between the Jaipur-Mumbai while hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.

A video widely circulated on social media, show that Singh is standing next to the dead bodies and saying “ you will vote to Modi if you want to live in India.”

“If you want to live and vote in Hindustan [India], I am telling you, it’s only Modi and Yogi,” Singh said.

Prominent Indian journalist, Rana Ayyub called the incident as impact of anti-milim speeches by Modi and his party leaders. 

“Prime Minister Modi, this is the impact of the anti- Muslim hate speech by leaders of your party. An RPF constable shot dead his own senior and three poor Muslims on a train. After shooting them he is heard telling passengers, ‘if you wish to stay in India, then just Modi and Yogi’ 

This one is also on the blood thirsty news anchors demonising an entire community,” she tweeted.

The tragic incident brought strong condemnation from Muslim lawmakers and demanded the government to immediacy arrest the killer.

Later police arrested Singh. 

“We received information at 6am that an RPF constable who was on escort duty opened fired, and four people were shot, one of whom was an ASI,” Al-Jazeera quoted Divisional Railway Manager Niraj Verma told reporters in Mumbai.

Singh had been involved in an argument with Meena, after which he opened fire on his senior colleague.

Indian Opposition party, the Indian National Congress party, Jairam Ramesh, calling it “cold-blooded murders”.

“The genie of hate is now out of the bottle and it will take a lot of collective effort to put it back in,” Ramesh said in a tweet.