Funny that not one mention is made in the entire article about any of the politicians' policies, their loyalty to India, their intelligence or their ability to govern. The last country India needs to learn from is France - look at the state of minorities in France and the general stagnation of it's culture and economy. Having being born and raised and lived in India, I feel that the move away from caste and religion based politics. Societies progress by being dynamic and experimental and not focused on eternal preservation.