Arif Mohammad Khan hits again at Rajdeep Sardesai throughout interview

India Today journalist Rajdeep Sardesai was left red-faced on Saturday after Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan gave a befitting response to his query on the binary of Hindu majority and Muslim minority. Khan expressed his disapproval over the query of majority-minority and acknowledged that in terms of India, all its residents no matter their faith take pleasure in “equal rights”.  
When Sardesai requested Khan how he noticed his id as an Indian Muslim, the Kerala governor appeared totally exasperated by the query requested of him by the India Today journalist. Nevertheless, he responded by saying, “We are celebrating the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Our independence did not come for free. It was accompanied by the partition of the country, a bloody partition of the country. There was a lot of bad blood and violence between the communities then…I think the partition happened because of this imaginary Muslim question, because of this question over majority and minority.”

Expressing his anguish over the media’s persistent efforts to divide the society on the idea of faith, Khan mentioned that after 75 years of India’s independence, it’s pitiful that the media was nonetheless drumming up the divisive discourse as a substitute of discussing Sabka Saath Sabka Vikaas Sabka Vishwas.
“The British never considered India as a nation. They always considered it as a conglomeration of communities. But this constitution considered citizens as the constituent unit of India. Where is the question of communities now? Come to my village and ask a Muslim about what is this Muslim question. He will be perplexed. Because he is facing the same problems as those faced by peasants belonging to other communities. Just because someone in Hyderabad said there exists a Muslim question, we have taken it seriously,” Arif Mohammad Khan mentioned.
Speaking on the section ‘Majority, Minority: The Battle of Belonging’ through the India Today conclave in Delhi, Khan mentioned the Indian civilisation and “our cultural heritage” has no idea of discrimination on the grounds of 1’s faith.
“Indian civilisation has never been defined by religion, all other civilisations were defined either by religion, mostly by religion, and also before that by race and language,” he mentioned whereas citing just a few shlokas to again his declare.
When requested whether or not Indian politics has moved from resorting to minority appeasement to majoritarianism in the previous couple of a long time, Khan mentioned it’s simply India’s structure however its millennia-old traditions which have by no means subscribed to the ideology of division and segregation.
“It is not only our Constitution that gives equal rights to people, but more than that our cultural heritage, the Indian civilisation, has no concept of discrimination on the basis of the religion, therefore to link the two, I find it preposterous,” he mentioned.