more hindu-bashing the political parties indulge in, more the hindus vote for them. strange? you cannot imagine parties even hint atchristian-bashing in U.K. or U.S.A. or political party in islamic country suggest however indirctly a critisism of islam and get votes. will be unthinkable. where is your pride , hindus? why are you so ashamed of being hindu that you have to elect hindu-bashers to prove that you have a will to live as hindu? centuries of islamic and then british rule has sapped your will to practice your religion unashamedly. wake up. centuries of foriegn rule did not convert india into christian or islamic country. but decades of democracy will.