Indian politics - correction religion politics.

Religion plays an important role in Indian Politics. They co-exists in India. Hindu nationalism, Muslim “vote banks”, anti-Christian violence, caste rivalry — Indian politics has more than enough interfaith tension of  all kinds to play as  “religion cards” during elections. 
All parties refer to them as socialist parties but are they?
Where does Communalism come then as a tool for electoral gains? Communalism is not actually a conflict between two religions but between the interests of two or more communities. It is using religious identity for political mobilisation. That is where religion becomes a tool. Religion is not a fundamental cause, religion per se does not cause any problem. Nobody is fighting whether Islam is right or Christianity is right or Hinduism is right. The main point is what the government does for Muslims, for Christians,for sikhs, for Hindus… The BJP bases its whole politics around accusations that Congress uses Muslims as vote banks and inclines towards them, does a lot of favours for them. ‘The Muslims vote for Congress and they claim we are against vote bank politics,’. But the BJP itself is basing its politics on the Hindu vote bank.

India is not a nation in the classical sense as in some countries which are based on  language and culture. But India is a bewilderingly diverse country and we have made it one nation. Declaring it a nation was easy, but in the process of nation-building, all these forces have come into play. Whatever development takes place is not based on justice. It is highly skewed. Some religious communities get much more than others, some castes or regions get much more than others. That is why this question of identity has become so important. Those who are left out use their identity to mobilise their people. Similarly, those who are privileged see a threat when other communities mobilise, so they also have to use their identity to ward off this. This is the interplay of religion and politics.
Mixing of religion with politics is dangerous because religious attitude is diametrically opposed to democratic feelings. Religion encourages fanaticism and suspends our reasoning power and we repose full faith in leaders. So if we want to consolidate democracy give firm foundations to it and make its working successful, it is necessary that the people should keep religion apart from politics.By keeping them independent of each other, we can retain secular democratic set-up. 
Finally, it can be admitted to all that politicians and political parties should be free from vitiated politics, free from religion vote banking. They should possess constructive view in respect of the masses,the states and our nation as in whole

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