Observers and experts like Henri Tiphagne, national secretary of the Human Rights Defenders’ Alert–India, express concern over the “politicisation” of the commission and its proactive selectiveness in some states, while ignoring crisis situations in others.

The point is they don’t feel for human rights, they don’t feel for victims of human rights, they don’t feel for the lives of those people -Henri Tiphagne, national secretary, Human Rights Defenders’ Alert – India

The Universal Periodic Review of India is due in 2022, the run-up to which has already started. This is an event where the National Human Rights Commission is most likely to get exposed.