Yogi Adityanath, the 45- year old chief minister of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, during a function, said that the governance in India could at best be sect-natural and stressed that no system can be secular. Reacting to the leader of India’s ruling party BJP who rejected the concept of government secularism, His Excellency Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, secretary-general of CBCI, conveyed that a majority of Hindus are tolerant toward other religions but politicians deliberately create problems as a distraction from other grievances.
As reported by ucanindia.in, His Grace Bishop Mascarenhas remarked that “The issue was raised to distract peoples’ attention from matters of more pressing concern, Adityanath should work for the development of the common people and not talk about issues that do not matter to them.” Further, he noted that “India has a secular constitution regardless of public comments by Adityanath.”
Opposition Congress party leader Kapil Sibal also weighed in on the latest debate and highlighted that it was Adityanath who was telling lies.
