Recently in the elections  in West Bengal, India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) , the Hindutva sectarian party led by Shuvendu Adhikari  defeated Mamata Banerjee’s All India Trinamool Congress (AITC  ), ending its 14-year rule of the state. The BJP’s win in West Bengal, which has been part of a series of wins by the BJP, India’s ruling party, is a testimony to India’s rising influence of Hindutva-inspired sectarian politics that not only threaten the safety and security of its minorities, especially the Muslims, but also pose a source of much concern for countries that border India.