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Appealing against any “intolerance” arising between communities, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday disapproved of politics in the name of religion and said that nobody should be discriminated against on the basis of their faith, caste or creed.
Singh said he was making the appeal on the eve of Dasara following recent incidents that have sparked tensions among local communities in Dadri, Faridabad and Punjab. He said he had talked to the Chief Ministers of these States to ensure peace and law and order following these incidents. “The news of intolerance that we are getting from electronic and print media is very worrisome. For us, these are issues of concern,” he said after inaugurating a new think-tank on policing subjects here.
The Home Minister said that a day before Dasara, he was appealing to citizens to remember that India is the only country that has propounded to the world the message of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’, or universal kinship. “We should not be getting any complaints of intolerance on the basis of caste, creed, religion or sect,” he said.
Singh said there should be no “politics” in the name of religion or sect as he termed the latest incidents of violence in Faridabad (against a Dalit family) and in Punjab (over alleged desecration of a holy book) as “very unfortunate” and “condemnable”.
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