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Shimla, Sep 14: Senior CPM leader and Rajya Sabha member Sitaram Yechury today warned the Central Government from interpreting faith of the mass majority of the people of the country as history.
Talking to reporters here after inaugurating a seminar titled ''National Integration and Multiple Identities: Dialectics of Inclusiveness and Exclusion in Indian Society'' here, he welcomed the government's action of withdrawing the controversial ASI affidavit from the Supreme Court.
''When the right to faith is provided in the Constitution it becomes the state's responsibility to protect it. The matter could have been dealt with more patiently and scientifically,'' he said at the seminar held at the reputed Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS).
Replying to question on what action should be taken against people responsible for filing the affidavit in a hurry, he said, ''on what basis it was given at the first place should be verified''.
Reiterating the party's stand on the issue, he said that the BJP has its own point of view and former deputy prime minister L K Advani has his own politics to play.
''But the Setusamundram project was cleared during the NDA Government and under the ministership of former union minister Uma Bharti.'' Earlier, while addressing the inaugural session of the seminar, the CPM leader said the intellectuals of the country should specify the differences between mythology and history and theology and philosophy.
He condemned the role of the communal forces to enforce the religious uniformity and confusing the people instead of looking for bonds of commonality and cohesion.
''The need is to search multiplicities by building unity in all forms of diversity,'' he said.
Commenting on the coalition politics in the country, he said it was not regression but the maturation of a democracy.
Mr Yechury also emphasized the need for recognizing the universal principle of equality of opportunity to achieve modernity. ''To achieve modernity and bonds of commonality for integrating the country, a multi layered approach has to be followed.'' Supporting Yechury's thesis, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Chairman B C said ''the rule of one dominant party was never good for our democracy''.
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Talking to reporters here after inaugurating a seminar titled ''National Integration and Multiple Identities: Dialectics of Inclusiveness and Exclusion in Indian Society'' here, he welcomed the government's action of withdrawing the controversial ASI affidavit from the Supreme Court.
''When the right to faith is provided in the Constitution it becomes the state's responsibility to protect it. The matter could have been dealt with more patiently and scientifically,'' he said at the seminar held at the reputed Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS).
Replying to question on what action should be taken against people responsible for filing the affidavit in a hurry, he said, ''on what basis it was given at the first place should be verified''.
Reiterating the party's stand on the issue, he said that the BJP has its own point of view and former deputy prime minister L K Advani has his own politics to play.
''But the Setusamundram project was cleared during the NDA Government and under the ministership of former union minister Uma Bharti.'' Earlier, while addressing the inaugural session of the seminar, the CPM leader said the intellectuals of the country should specify the differences between mythology and history and theology and philosophy.
He condemned the role of the communal forces to enforce the religious uniformity and confusing the people instead of looking for bonds of commonality and cohesion.
''The need is to search multiplicities by building unity in all forms of diversity,'' he said.
Commenting on the coalition politics in the country, he said it was not regression but the maturation of a democracy.
Mr Yechury also emphasized the need for recognizing the universal principle of equality of opportunity to achieve modernity. ''To achieve modernity and bonds of commonality for integrating the country, a multi layered approach has to be followed.'' Supporting Yechury's thesis, Indian Institute of Advanced Studies Chairman B C said ''the rule of one dominant party was never good for our democracy''.
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