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Sacred or Fraudulent: Yogendra Yadav on Indian Secularism

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Channel: CINEINK · 2018 · News & Politics

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This is the radio version of of an interview with political theorist, psephologist and politician Yogendra Yadav, the founder- president of   India, who calls Indian secularism 'Pakhand' and its practitioners, politicians as well as intellectuals, hypocrites. 

Mr. Yadav says that Muslims, who are a ‘disadvantaged minority’ of the country have been made hostage of this secular politics, initially started by the Congress Party, in an exclusive interview with Cine Ink's Pervaiz Alam. 

Referring to the intellectuals of the country, Yogendra Yadav says that most of them speak English and have failed to initiate a dialogue with the common man. They have also shunned the ideas of religious beliefs of people and traditions, he adds.

He gets emotional when asked about a controversy regarding his name. Though he is a Hindu but his childhood name is Salim- a common name among Muslims. “It is true, something very intimate, and has nothing to do with my professional life,” he says.

He narrates the incident of how his father at the age of eight saw his grandfather being murdered by a Muslim mob in the city of Hisar, Haryana in 1936, where he worked as a hostel warden of a school. Mr Yadav says that his father also witnessed the communal riots of 1947 as well as the plight of Muslim victims. He did not want to live with hatred. He decided to give Muslim names to his children.

Mr. Yadav further shares that in his town Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, there were no Muslims in his class. Children used to tease him, and failing to understand the reason he decided to change his name from Salim to Yogendra. But for his family and friends he is still ‘Salim’.

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