And also, my dear Gilbert, they have now amply demonstrated that 'SECULARISM' cannot be a panacea for each and everything, that it cannot be an absolutely unifying factor. If secularism is the only issue, then all the secular parties have to merge themselves into a homogeneous unit, and fight 'communalism.' Under secularism, there can be any number of issues and with a wide divergence, sometimes irreconcilable, of views. Hence the Leftists' and the secularists' pontifications that all the secular forces have to come together to keeep the 'communal' forces at bay are ludicrous and are bound to waste the nation' s time, decelerate the actual progress, and only an attempt to fool the people.