The death of Indian Secularism. A thread.

The idea of secularism was to stop the state & religion for meddling with each other. It's a French concept, with India adopting it in the 1976. This thread is to explain, that BJP didn't destroy Indian secularism, but INC did way before, which helped BJP become relevant.

The INC before Indira, the one during Nehru's time compromised of progressive leaders who brought in huge reforms in the Hindu religion, abolishing untouchability, sati pratha, polygamy, child marriage etc. But they left Christianity and Islam alone.

It was because they were afraid back then as they thought meddling with Islam and Christianity will cause backlash and already huge social conflict post partition had taken place between Hindus and Muslims. This for me was a historical blunder, which has come to haunt them today.

Indira introduced the concept of secularism as she could see the rise of Sangh and she directly said that state and religion will be separate from each other. This also gave her the confidence of the Muslim votebank and her popularity was already huge pan India.

Fast forward to Rajiv Gandhi, Shah Bano Begum case happened. It was chance for Rajiv Gandhi to set a new direction for INC by actually practicing secularism in its true value but he didn't. For the appeasement of the vote-bank, INC chose to practice secularism selectively.

BJP had 2 seats back then. Post this, they made huge inroads as a national party by winning around 80. Secularism in India wasn't destroyed in 2014 but it was destroyed by Rajiv Gandhi in 85. Only if he had shown courage, situation of his party would have been much better today.

As today, India celebrates the death of its Secularism, practically, the onus must go on those people who kept using it for their gain only to give chance to a radical group to take control over the psychology of Indian population. End of Thread.