Expressing serious concerns over the widening gap and enmity between religious communities in India, the Welfare Party of India (WPI) called upon the people of all religions and castes to get united and maintain harmony to keep India’s pluralistic social fabrics and the tradition of peaceful coexistence of different communities with diverse cultural backgrounds.
“India has traditionally been a great land that hosted peaceful coexistence of different religions, castes and other communities with diverse cultural identities. It has been a synonym for harmony and peace despite having cultural, linguistic, regional and ethnic diversities. Unity in diversity is India’s strength and we need to protect its pluralistic social fabrics,” Tajuddin Ilakal, State working committee member of WPI, said.
Addressing a media conference in Kalaburagi on Thursday, Mr. Ilakal held British rulers in pre-independence responsible for sowing the seed of communalism as part of their divide-and-rule policy to keep the power at their hands by keeping the indigenous groups busy in fighting each other.
