No community can claim majority status in India, Shashi Tharoor says

[IndoCarib]

NEW DELHI: No community, including Hindus, can claim majority status in India as it is essentially a country of people with various beliefs, Congress leader and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor said here on Tuesday.

"There is no community in the country which can claim to be a majority. It is true that Hindus are majority but within the community there are caste, regional and linguistic differences. So within Hindu community also there are people with minority status and they experience it," he said.

He was speaking at the fifth annual lecture of National Minority Commission (NCM).

Tharoor gave several examples of diversity within a common regional or caste belief.

"Brahmins in Karnataka and West Bengal share the same regional belief but have distinct identities of their regions. They get along better with people of their own places and origin even though if the other person follows a different religion," he said.

Accepting that some minority communities do "suffer from greater disadvantages", Tharoor said, "It will be wrong to generalise anything about India as there are 22 languages, 22,000 dialects and 85 political parties in our country...Our nationalism is not based on language, geography, ethnicity. It is the nationalism of an idea of living in harmony with diverse views."

The former minister of state for external affairs said, "We all have different point of views and policies and we all respect it. From that point of view we all are minorities."

Replying to question over incidents of communal and ethnic clashes in the country, he said the Indian identity of citizens should matter the most.

"There are inter-communal clashes. Sometime it happens between two minority communities, which has happened in Assam. Sometime the majority community attacks the minorities, which happened in Gujarat, but at the end we all have to survive together," he said.

NCM chairperson Wajahat Habibullah said the motive of the lecture was to spread a positive message about India.

No community can claim majority status in India, Shashi Tharoor says - The Times of India

So Hindus can not claim majority status, but Muslims can claim minority status ?? Ironically he was speaking at the annual lecture of National Minority Commission

 

[FRANCIS]

Everyone is equal in a country like India . The term majority increases the ego in a person so well said Mr. Tharoor

 

[IndoCarib]

Everyone is equal in a country like India . The term majority increases the ego in a person so well said Mr. Tharoor

Everyone is equal. Agreed. But why do Congress leaders try to appease the minority ? If there is no majority, there should be no minority

 

[Tshering22]

Everyone is equal in a country like India . The term majority increases the ego in a person so well said Mr. Tharoor

Then how come a certain votebank community is lauded with "minority status" always while others are expected to suffer for them?

Do you have an answer for that?

Secularist slavery is different from genuine equality that we all people follow, buddy.

Don't get inspired by dual-meaning words like these.

 

[manofwar]

Everyone is equal. Agreed. But why do Congress leaders try to appease the minority ? If there is no majority, there should be no minority

You are right........However no matter what you name them, the disparity between some communities will remain. The problem is not naming but the problem itself. Instead of thinking about whether there should be a "majority" or a "minority" more stress should be given on actually reducing poverty and other problems rather than contemplating for months about what the target group should be named.

 

[harpoon]

So this means that there no minority in India either.

 

[tvsram1992]

Every one is not equal . Fcking Reservations ...

 

[Riteon]

Oh well ........there is no majority but certainly plenty of minorities !! Shashi tharoor and his philosophies.............a bitter truth nevertheless............but then he should have talked about the appeasement policy of the Kangress too.........If not for that Majority wont care

 

[IndoCarib]

So this means that there no minority in India either.

there is. he was speaking at the minority commission !

 

[Tshering22]

there is. he was speaking at the minority commission !

You can spot a suckular from miles away..

 

[Tshering22]

double post.

 

[Riteon]

guys heard about the plan to introduce Fing Reesrvation in PROMOTIONS !!!! WTF is hardwork and acquired abilities for when this Congress shitheads and flooding their pseudo secular policies !!!

 

[s1lencer]

remove all the reservations then talk about secularism, congress r bitches

 

[cloud_9]

haha if someone can't claim the majority status then the other can't claim the minority one.The irony is he said that at a National Minority Commission lecture Good ol' desi logic