Post-Independence, the robust tradition of state leaders hosting Muslim guests each Ramadan has served as a barometer of India's tolerance, writes one culture expert.
Post-Independence, the robust tradition of state leaders hosting Muslim guests each Ramadan has served as a barometer of India's tolerance, writes one culture expert.Majeed Memon feeds Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar in an iftar, the breaking of fast in the holy month of Ramadan, organised by his party at Islam Gymkhana, on April 27, 2022 in Mumbai, India .
Embree further noted,"India, they insisted, would be a secular state, that is, in the Indian usage of the term: a nation where all religion would be freely practised but none would be favoured over another by the state."Muslim community members participate in an iftar, the breaking of fast in the holy month of Ramadan, organised by Nationalist Congress Party and attended by Sharad Pawar at Islam Gymkhana, on April 27, 2022 in Mumbai, India .
Notably, Uttar Pradesh is critically important in electoral politics even today, and more so when it comes to Muslim votes. The state currently has a BJP-ruled government with Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath, Vajpayee was one of the founding members of Bhartiya Jan Sangh , and a lifelong member of ultra-nationalist Hindutva organisation Rashtriya Sevak Sangh .
Post-2014, the scenario further transformed as the BJP-ruled federal government officially gave political iftar a cold shoulder.was hosted or attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Neither did the few Muslim leaders like Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi or Najma Heptullah within the BJP throw a party during Ramadan.Interestingly Pranab Mukherjee and then-President of India did host an iftar.
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