Even the Bharatiya Janata Party, so seamless in its operations countrywide, has some shortcomings. Leaders from the party, be they major or minor, must speak up - in order to drown all other voices. He mentioned the "turbulent political atmosphere" that has hurt the democratic principles enshrined in the Constitution and the secular fabric of the nation. Some politicians said the archbishop had attacked democracy and secularism - was his reference to these principles illegitimate because he was speaking to the church? If he did not know what the archbishop had written, why was he talking at all?

Source: The Telegraph May 27, 2018 18:33 UTC