New Delhi: Former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari in an exclusiveinterview to Zee News reiterated his 2017 statement that Muslims are notsafe in India. Ansari spoke at length about several issues includingsecularism, safety of Muslims.
In the interview aired on Zee News on Saturday, Hamid Ansari reiteratedwhat he wrote in his book that today there is no word of secularism in thegovernment’s dictionarylink.
Hamid Ansari claimed that secularism has almost “disappeared” fromgovernment’s official vocabulary adding that most of his views onsecularism is based on Bombai Judgement, which was delivered by SupremeCourt.
When asked if there was a word in the government’s dictionary before 2014,then his answer was – “Yes, but not enough.”
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The former Vice President saidlinkduring the last week of his tenure two incidents aroused resentment in somesections and the people thought that his statement has some hidden meaning.In his new book ‘By Many a Happy Accident: Recollection of a Life’, theformer Vice President has also mentioned about his conversations andinteractions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He responded to a range of counter questions from Hindu terrorism toappeasement and ‘insecurity among Muslims’, mob lynching and then HamidAnsari left the interview.
