The BJP regards Muslims as Indians and human beings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Muslim' is not a political party. 'Muslim' is not a single culture. Muslims go to war with each other. There are more Muslims in India, Russia and China than in most Muslim-majority nations. 'Muslim' is not a homogenous entity.
Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.
We maintain and hold that Muslims and Hindus are two major nations by any definition or test of a nation.
We've always seen ourselves as Indian. We've never seen ourselves as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or Buddhists.
The BJP decides its own policies.
The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.
BJP is a national party which runs the central government, and if I can take a decision on the future of all these parties, I must be a capable person. I am grateful that everybody is accepting my capability.