I read in one of the novels of salman rushdie that corruption and communalism are the two most potent forces in india and i tend to agree with him.But the problem is that whereas there is so much hue and cry about corruption,there are andolans and dharnas by civil society against corruption,there are hardly any movements by indian civil society against communalism which is a very dangerous force and capable of playing havoc with our beloved nation.It is high time that we indians treat communalism at par with corruption and communal leaders or persons as corrupt and fit for rejection by the public.Republic of India was formed as a democratic and secular nation where all religions and all persons are respected and treated equally and this is written in our constitution.But our constitution is defied by communal leaders of the country who time and again play with the sentiments of the common men,disturb the secular character of the nation,for their petty political interests.There have been several communal riots in the country due to the wrong doings of these communal leaders for which innocent persons have suffered their life and properties to no limit.Who have benifited out of these miseries? These communal leaders and nobody else.So are these communal leaders belonging to a particular religion and spreading hatred for the other religions not corrupt?I feel that law and order in our country also is communally biased and therefore corrupt.Several culprits of communal riots in india are unpunished and are enjoying the power and patronage due to their political parties communal agenda.Why the right wing hindu fanatic groups like rss,vhp,bajrang dal,shiv sena can not be banned in india knowing pretty well that they have a communal agenda which is totally against the indian constitution.Under the garb of corruption and economic progress they can not hide their communal designs.Therefore we have to treat communalism as a corrupt practice and deal with it as sternly as we are dealing with corruption.