Religion in India bubbles over into politics

[hari../kumar]

Modi has a real problem. He told the rss wing nuts one thing to get
support and the general public another when seeking election. As a
politition he can never fulfill his trash talk to rss. The goal of a
politition is relection and he can not do so if he allows religious strife.

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Modi was
catapulted to power on promises to develop India's economy and root out
the corruption and incompetence that had crippled the previous
government, but he had launched his political career in the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh, a militant Hindu group that combines religious
education with self-defense exercises, and parent organization of the
ruling party. Powerful Hindu nationalist leaders, some with close ties
to Modi's government, say they intend to ensure India becomes a
completely Hindu nation. Modi, on his part, has remained silent as
nationalist demands have bubbled into day-to-day politics, and amid
growing fears among minority religious groups of creeping efforts to
shunt them aside.

Just how much Modi actually supports that sprawling agenda, which
includes everything from demands to rewrite school textbooks to, at the
most extreme end, the expulsion of non-Hindus from India, remains
unclear. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)