A majority of our political parties like Congress, CPM, CPI, TDP, DMK, SP, JD etc. get away by placating and appeasing minorities and never come under the EC scanner. BJP is reduced to a minority in this scenario, being perhaps the only party trying to placate or play to the emotions of the majority community.
Even when the majority political thrust is on secularism, the very talk of secularism in an election campaign serves to open wounds and fan the fires of fundamentalism. Those who can think of this aspect are sadly in minority.
Majority of the citizens of this country are privately religious and publicly secular. Only a minority of the national population can appreciate that secularism doesn't mean degrading any religion - be it majority or minority. Karunanidhi and Buddhadeb can freely denigrate Ram, the hero of majority, because ours is a democracy. But a Taslima or Salman Rushdie cannot write against their own religion because the minorities apparently do not believe in democracy.
Congress professes to champion the cause of minorities but in over 40 years' of rule at the centre, it never thought of having a Muslim PM. It is perhaps because a majority of congressmen are blind supporters of miniscule minority rule called family or dynastic rule.
At the end of it all, the common man who is more concerned with roti, kapta aur makaan who is actually majority in number is left in the minority in terms of vote power.
