India's Catholic bishops are urging voters to keep the world's most populous country secular, and a former Supreme Court judge has warned that becoming a Hindu state will sound the death knell of democracy in the country.
Former Supreme Court judge Justice KM Joseph on Thursday lamented the loss of lives and destruction of religious places in Manipur in the recent communal riots and said that the same does not bode well for secularism.
Ayodhya was just a station on the way; Hindu Rashtra the final destination. Couching this as a Hindu-Muslim conflict works to the great advantage of the Sangh Parivar
Kolkata, Nov 25 (PTI) Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said the word secularism is being given a different twist and termed as appeasement.