so India is supposed to be a 'secular' country ?

[Punjabee_in_USA]

Re: so India is supposed to be a ‘secular’ country ?

@hanibal

^^^ who totally forgot to mention anything about these poor Christians who are currently suffering from the extremism of Hindu extremist party and unfortunately this party is accepted as National Party.. so we can say that Hindus are extremist at large… anyway. let see.. if BJP comes into power.. where the riots will start… any guess…which minority BJP might have in mind to slaugther

Secularism cannot come at the cost of democracy. India has 80% Hindus and so if all of them decided to vote for BJP, obviously their voice would be heard. Historically however Hindus have not voted on religious grounds and that is why BJP has ruled only one complete term in the 62 years since independence.

I dont see why when the religious majority asserts its sentiments in a democracy it is considered non-secular, but when poiltical parties pander to religious minorities in order to get their votes it is considered secular.