When you elect a pseudo secularist party into power that panders to minorities just for votes and then doesnt care, it leads to hypocritical governance with tons of corruption.
You forgot the most important and destructive consequence. The growth of Right wing groups that now have a convincing reason to appeal to the majority - "see, in the country where we are in a majority, we are being discriminated against and the muslims pandered to because of vote bank policies" - which in my opinion is far more dangerous in the long term, as we Indians will find out.
But it atleast attempts to keep religious tensions low. After the anti-Sikh Riots I dont think anything can be solely attributed to the Congress.
Hardly they kept the tensions low. Did you forget the Shah Bano case and the compensatory opening of the Ayodhya locks ? Even in Gujarat riots, on the ground level plenty of Congress workers and functionaries were involved - both in Godhra carnage and the ensuing retaliation.
However when you elect an openly non-secular party with connections to far right wing groups such as VHP, Bajrang Dal etc, things get insecure for the minority groups.
Please explain what openly non-secular means ? I mean has BJP said anytime that once they come to power all Muslims/Xtians will be disenfranchised, or they would be deported or India would be made a Hindu Rashtra or so on. The perception of BJP as being "non-secular" is highly ridiculous especially when compared to the likes of Congress and parties like SP, RJD etc.
This phenomenon has everything to do with the perverse definition of "secularism" we have in India where anything spoken in the name of Hinduism is lablled communal and anything in the name of other religions like Islam, xtianity are automatically labelled secular.
Because these far right wing groups now have political power more than ever, with one of their own men sitting in the PMO. These are the same guys that demolished the Babri Masjid, which I concretely think was wrong. That was the reason for the 92 riots.
Babri structure was not a masjid first of all. It was just a dilapidated structure in ruins built on top of one of Hinduism's most sacred spots by a foreign invader after demolishing the existing temple there. We should not tolerate such structures as Indians which symbolize our defeat in front of a foreign power.
Regarding the '92 riots, I dont know about rest of India, but insofar as Mumbai was concerned it started with the killing of 6 Hindus at radhabhai chawl.
Who started it ? or what started it ?
Anti-Christian violence with nuns being raped, churches being demolished, kids being burnt alive etc etc.
More disinformation. It all started with the killing of a Hindu leader Lakshamananda by the evangelists and moreover it was not even a religious issue to begin with. It was a land sharing dispute between the tribal Kondhs (who happened to be majority Hindus) and the SC Panas (xtians) in which the Panas were usurping the tribal lands and that Swami was opposing that. This was given a communal color by the likes of John Dayal in the media studios of New Delhi.
If you are talking about the anti-xtian violence in Karnataka, then please take your time and read this report compiled by a member of the Karnataka minorites commission about the "violence" and who are behind that.
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Things are not that simple as you like to believe where there is one villain and one hero, the villain does the trouble and the hero defeats him.
I mean I would be the happiest man in the world if religion goes to hell in this world
, but I believe everyone should be able to practice their religion without being persecuted.
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Every party in India - I mean every fricking party - uses religion, language, caste or ethnicity for vote catching. Please learn to live with it and try electing the lesser of evils which in my case, and which should be factually, the BJP
