THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu today cautioned against mixing religion with politics and said religion was “personal” and a “way of worship.”
Closing temples in the name of caste is “totally wrong” and against the dharma, culture and the visions of the country, he said.
Delivering the annual Sree Chithira Thirunal Memorial Lecture here, Naidu said “social justice” and “inclusion” were a part of the genesis of independent India and “we couldn’t have had a really ‘free’ nation with a sizable unfree population.”
In the socio-economic context of pre-independent India, removal of barriers to social integration of the dalits was a big challenge, he said. (AGENCIES)
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