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RE:beijing is back
by Shankar Panday on Aug 29, 2007 01:22 AM

The BJP if it can be a religious right would be considered an extreme Leftist by Paki or Bangladesh standards. The center there is equivalent of extreme right in India. Even by US standards BJP would be far left of even the Republican party. BJP could be a nationalist party but not a religious pary by any stretch of imagination. Firstly, the Hindu religion does not mandate a political system, even Ram Rajya is more conceptual than an agenda. It is only the Semitic religions like Judaism, Christianity & Islam that has this wierd concept of a political system that has come from God. Of the three mentioned however, only Islam established a Caliphate ordained by God, and a the present time it is the only religion with a Theocratic state agenda. The BJP has not insisted on altering Indias secular framework with any like say Manu Code.

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