ALL the claims made by Prime minister Narendra Modi on the absence of discrimination based on caste, creed, religion, age or geographic location in India, during his rare interaction with the media in the US were immediately proven wrong. A spate of attacks on religious minorities centring around Eid and the overt or covert protection to the perpetrators of such attacks by the State, sharply bring to focus the huge gap between the claims and deeds of the BJP government.