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for the communists, less said the better. It is they who sought to
furnish an ideological foundation for Pakistan, i.e., separate
Muslim Rashtra, prior to Partition. Even to this day, they argue
that Bharat is not one, but 18 Rashtras based on as many
distinct linguo cultural identities.
When such avowed disruptors of
national unity try to denounce Hindu Rashtra, it would only carry
the opposite message, i.e., Hindu Rashtra stands for a single
homogeneous national identity of the country and, therefore, they
are dead opposed to it.
Apart from its patently political
motivation, the charge also betrays stark ignorance about the Hindu
Rashtra concept. Hindu is not the name of a religious faith
like the Muslim or the Christian. It denotes the
national way of life here. All those who feel firmly committed to
the unity and sanctity of our country and our people, and look upon
our great forebears as their national heroes and the sublime values
of our cultural life as their points of veneration and emulation,
are all Hindus. Here, the question of one's personal faith does not
come into play at all.
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