Modi can make India a Hindu State with our support: Goa Minister

' Goa Minister for Cooperation Deepak Dhavlikar belonging to the regional outfit Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), an alliance partner of Bharatiya Janata Party, on Thursday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would be able to make India a Hindu State in the future if he got unstinted and full support and backing from “all of us”. Mr. Dhavlikar was speaking in the State Legislative Assembly supporting a congratulatory motion tabled by two ruling BJP MLAs on Thursday, the third day of monsoon session of the Assembly, congratulating Mr. Modi for sweeping the Lok Sabha polls 2014 and forming a government at the Centre...

Congress organizing Secretary and Spokesperson Durgadas Kamat told The Hindu that he was shocked to hear Mr. Dhavlikar speaking of establishing “Hindu Rasthra” in the future as it was against the Constitution under which he was sworn in as a Minister. He asked Mr. Dhavlikar to define what exactly he meant by “Hindu Rashtra” and wondered if the senior alliance partner BJP backed his wish.'