It is wonderful to see such ethnic diversity in the USA. I wish in India we too followed a similar ethnic amalgam of races, religions and communities. But unfortunately India has to reckon with the fundamentalist 'Hindutva' doctrine of Sawarkar who is the guardian angel of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Abhinav bharat, a society originally founded by sawarkar and now headed by his daughter-in-law Mrs.Himani Sawarkar is implicated in the Malegam blasts investigations. Mrs.Sawarkar declared in a recent interview to the Outlook Magazine (17th Nov.2008):
" Question: How should India fight terrorism?"
Mrs.Himani Sawarkar's response: "We must declare ourselves a Hindu Rashtra where everyone is a Hindu. Anyone who isn???t should be declared a second-class citizen and denied voting rights. Those who have problems with this should leave and settle in other countries. The Hindu votebank must unite to vote out any government that fails to tackle terror. Then we must throw out the outsiders like Bangladeshis who live off India???s wealth and work towards destroying us.???
This is how India's preambulary Constitutional objective is being outragously challenged.
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