Hypocrisy over secularism
I am strongly of the view that secularism is one of the finest principle guideline of running any modern government. But the established influence of 'identity politics' in the electioneering democracy has made secularism a wayward affairs for almost all political parties. In absence of a quality democracy, most of the political parties uses identity politics in hypocratic manner and ultimately exploit the emotion of public. Say for example if you say any party, you are castist, they will say this is social justice, if you say your party is majority communal, they will say this is nationalism and if you say it is minority communal ism, they will say this is secularism. Right wing BJP in real terms don't believe in secularism, they talk about 'sarvadharmsambhav' only because they know it would be easier to grab majority votes because of this. On the contrast all the non BJP, Congress, left and socialist parties talk about secularism, but they can not able to reply, why their secularism did not able to check the division of India on communal line. Second their secularism is just synonymous to minority's communal ism. That is why they oppose uniform civil code , which is one of the foremost ideal of secularism and supreme court is repeatedly batting for this that there must be one law, one mother concept in all families. Last but not the least, at least Muslim community has no right to talk about secularism, because in no Muslim countries of world, secularism is being implemented neither in letter nor in spirit and India despite its division on communal line is far far ahead on this.