President
Barack Obama during his visit to India said on 27 January that, ‘India will
succeed as
long as it is not splintered on religious lines’. He also quoted
Article 25 of our Constitution to lay emphasis on his statement. The remark may
also be a caution to avert splintering episodes like Gujrat 2002.The remarks
may also be backlash of some past events as cited below;
Increasing cases of attacks
and destruction of churches, rapes and murders of Christians in Odisha,
Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat, Delhi and elsewhere by the Bajrang Dal on the plea
that Christians are forcing conversions (September 2008). According to the
Global Peace Index (GPI) 2011, India ranks amongst the 20 least peaceful
nations in the world (Zee News Bureau, 26 May, 2011).
The
western world, particularly the US and European Union (EU), has expressed
serious concern on this and embarrassed India before the world community.
Earlier, French President Nicholas Sarkozy conveyed as much to our Prime
Minister when he was in France (29 September, 2008) and a few days later
Condoleezza Rice (the then US Secretary of State) said the same thing when she
visited India (4 October 2008).
Note: Some
of our learned leaders, however, called it interference in our internal
matters.
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