Indian Democracy is Faulty on Caste and Religious Lines

I think our democracy is faulty because it has been exploited on religious and caste lines. It does not matter by which party, because if a fault line exists someone or the other will exploit it.
 

Ideally we should have declared a state religion after a separate nation was created for followers of Mhd. Since we chose a difficult path, religious minorities became vote banks and Hindus had to live with minority appeasements and also we keep seeing communal riots.
 

Next, caste politics decides who is going to win in most of the seats. The caste based politics stemmed from politics of payoffs by quota and other benefits. All our reservations, subsidy, and scholarships should have been for poor people below poverty lines irrespective of castes. But we made open casteism our state politics and hence worst kind of people came over to rule us, exploiting us by divide and rule policy!
 

I think there is no pride in the fact that our democracy is being exploited by petty people by dividing us on caste and religious lines. I know almost every wrong thing can be attributed to the dynasty ruling us, but I believe if they did not do it then someone else would have done it. We should stop state sponsored casteism and religious discrimination. Then only politics of growth will remain and India will see real growth…