Indore: Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) General Secretary and senior party leader, Kailash Vijayvargiya has said that post-Independence and subsequent partition of the country in 1947 on religious lines, India constitutes a 'Hindu Rashtra'. Vijayvargiya made the remarks while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Tuesday.
“When India was divided, it was on this issue (on religious lines). After partition, Pakistan was formed and the remaining country is a Hindu nation,” the BJP leader said. He was responding to a question on the demand of religious leaders in the country to declare India a 'Hindu Rashtra'. In a bid to substantiate his claim that India was a Hindu Rashtra post-partition, the BJP leader said that a Muslim friend of his hailing from Madhya Pradesh capital Bhopal recites the Hanuman Chalisa every day and also visits a Shiva temple.
