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Current scenario

Communal riots have been increasing after the independence and after the partition.
The corrupt politics take the advantage of this weakness of India citizens and give
more fire to religious conflicts. However, if we consider the Indian constitution,
Freedom of religion is an important part of the constitution.
In 2013, in Muzaffarnagar city located in the state of Uttar Pradesh, some intense
communal riots happened. Police evacuated both, the Hindus and Muslim villagers
where the attackers beat children and around 100 people were killed. With this
incident, the political parties and opposition parties blamed each other as a cause of
violence. The politicians of Samajwadi Party that gains more Muslim votes accused
the BJP for contributing in the riots for gaining more votes.

Quick facts about Politics and Religion
● Mahatma Gandhi, the non-violent leader of India, worked hard to put down
the religions riots between Hindu and Muslim in Bengal
● One of the major post-independence communal riots occurred on the Sikh
partisans inside the Harmandir Sahib that caused a lot of damage to the
Gurudwara
● This attack caused hundreds of civilians and soldiers along with 250 militants
● In 1992, another major communal attack happened when the Babri mosque
was demolished as a result of the Ayodhya debate
● In 2002, Godhra Train Burning incident happened in which, 2000 Muslims
were killed. This was too a communal attacks
● It is believed that BJP is the major political party of India due to the support of
Hindus, which is the dominating religion in India
● After the independence, Hinduism was considered as a minority in Indian
politics but after 1980 Hinduism, faced rising popularity
● It was also stated that during 1992, the Babri mosque demolition was caused
due to the orders of BJP leader Advani and during this riots, 4000 people died
● Political parties and leaders use the communal factor to amplify violence and
ample of communal riots are the example

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