Bhubaneswar, March 21 -- Amid the escalating West Asia tensions, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Peeyush Mohanty on Saturday claimed that India remains the safest country for Muslims globally.

Speaking to the ANI here, Mohanty asserted that Islamic nations like Iraq and Iran currently lack the security found in India, crediting this stability to the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

"Nowhere else in the world today are Muslims as safe as they are in India. Whether in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or any other Muslim country, Muslims are not safe there. Only Indian Muslims are safe, and this is because of our Prime Minister," said Mohanty.

He said that Muslims were not safe anywhere in the world, but on Indian soil. No Musli...