And if the Prime Minister said it, it was bound to be correct. And yet, even in my most pessimistic and darkest moods, I would never have thought I would hear a Prime Minister attack and demonise a sizeable section of his own fellow citizens. These were the words spoken in Hindi: “Pehle jab unki sarkar thi, unhone kaha tha ki desh ki sampati par pehla adhikar Musalmano ka hai. Are they not the Muslims of India, our fellow citizens, with equal rights and liberties as every one of us? So forgive one last question: Is it fitting – no, more accurately, is it morally correct – for the prime minister of a secular democracy to speak of fellow citizens of a different faith in this manner?

Source: Hindustan Times May 05, 2024 04:27 UTC