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We are living through tumultuous times: times of communal conflict and social unrest, times of head on collision of minority religions with political powers. Side by side communalism and its negative effects continue to destabilize the country.
In this way we can say that communalism is the greatest hurdle in the way of the successful working of democracy in India.
(i) Communalism leads to intolerance, fear and suspicion towards members of other communities. It creates disunity among the people and is an obstacle in the way of national integration and peaceful co-existence.
(ii) It leads to the formation and growth of pressure groups to protect and promote the specific interests of the community, e.g., VHP etc.
(iii) Communal violence, which takes the form of mindless carnage, is on the rise leading to suspicion, mistrust, fear and vindictiveness.
(iv) Political parties are formed on the basis of religion and this can lead to separatism. Akali Dal, Shiv Sena, etc. are the examples of such political parties.
(v) Religion based communities are used as a vote bank during elections.
Current manifestation of Communalism in India.
The following are the manifestations of Communalism in India:
All these show that communalism is very much inherent in the Indian socio-economic and political arena.
(i) To use issues of the past for settling scores in the present against another community.
(ii) To encourage inter-community enmity by bringing up events and episodes of the medieval past.
(iii) To punish innocent members of the community today due to acts of omission and commission of a few members of the same community in the past.
(iv) To incite communal animosity and hate by word of mouth or publication particularly by using one's privileged position in society and profession.
(v) Attack on and murder of innocent human being in a frenzy of riot only because he belongs to another community.
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