NO MORAL DICTUM PLEASE !
According to media reports, Modi recently cautioned BJP members against spreading communal hatred, acknowledging that provocative comments made by some of his party colleagues were totally uncalled for and declaring that the constitutional guarantees of religious freedom and non-discrimination were non-negotiable. As a theoretical proposition, no one can disagree. This is consistent with the accepted wisdom, namely, “that in any country the faith and the confidence of the minorities in the impartial and even functioning of the State is the acid test of being a civilized State”. But how different the ground reality is! 

This principle was grossly breached by a Muslim minister of the Modi government when, justifying the ban on beef on TV, he felt bold enough to make an atrocious statement advising Muslims to go to Pakistan if they wished to eat beef. This should have resulted in the summary dismissal of the minister, but one has not even read a public rebuke of him by Modi. Not only that, the BJP seems to justify this policy on the excuse that since a large number of people (meaning Hindus) are against it, the ban is justified. This is a curious reasoning. Since there are at least 14 crore Muslims in India (a population exceeding almost every country of Europe), then why not ban pork and ham? The eating habits of people of various religions cannot be a matter of government policies unless, of course, the real purpose is to hit the economy of these communities who may be living by that business.