India is going to face elections this year. The heat is already there in the speeches of the wily politicians who will not leave any stone unturned to grab votes by wooing innocent public. India is a big democratic country in this world. Elections happen in India after every 5 years. People chose their representatives/leaders by voting process. There are innumerable parties apart from Independents who will not belong to any party and who have an agenda of their own. The big parties as per today's scenario are Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at national level. Out of these two, Congress is a pan-India party, which have established itself very strongly since India got Independence from the clutches of British.
Coming to elections, recently there has been a hot debate about one of the radical speeches of one of the Gandhi family against Muslims. The speech is so radical that News Channels all around the world have taken a moral decision about not to broadcast the same to the public. Actually, the person in question is trying to woo the voters of a particular constituency through this kind of speech. Since India is democratic and secular country, these kind of radical speeches are uncalled for.
But, the question is why these politicians are trying to play the religion politics every time India goes to elections since she got her Independence? What is it that these politicians think that they can attract voters of a particular community by making radical statements against another community? Moreover, why these radical speeches against another community, in particular, woo these voters?
The answer lies in Indo-Pak partition. This happened when India got Independence from British. The members of all the communities irrespective of their religion status had done the struggle for Independence. Once India got independence, immediately a few Muslim politicians who have been having a few differences with the existing Hindu politicians, announced to the world that they want to have a separate country for themselves. Then the division of India happened and the new entity thus born was named as Pakistan. So many Muslims who have been hitherto stayed in India had moved to Pakistan and Hindus there, moved to India.
This division along with the movement of Muslims to Pakistan had created an illusion in the minds of Indians that from here onwards India is theirs and they can rule however, they want. However, even after the partition, a majority of Muslim families opted to stay back in India. These people had been friendly with their neighbor Hindus. When Indian constitution was written, it had been decided that India would be a Sovereign, Socialist, and Secular country. Although the word Secular has been written in our constitution, it could not able to enter the mindsets of so many Indians.
Coming to today's scenario, India holds the majority of the Muslim population in the entire world. That means more number of Muslims are there in India compared to those countries where Islam has been declared as their state religion. And suddenly, a majority of Indians started identifying themselves as Hindus due to the divide and rule politics of these wily politicians radical speeches. Out of the blue, they started realizing that why not we declare India a Hindu state at the same time forgetting the secular status of India.
If you look from third-party point of view, it is not the question whether you are a Hindu/Muslim/Christian/etc. There is no need to get confused. Whatever you are, whoever you are, you are an Indian citizen. You need to think what you have done or what you can do to better the lives of your country citizens. Hinduism, Islam, etc, teach us different ways to understand God. Nevertheless, our development as humans of a better society comes from the manners, which we learn through the education imparted to us.
Remember, if we as human beings forget the idiom "Live and Let Live" then it has to be understood that there would be no more days left for our human community to survive on this Planet Earth.
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