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Religion should not be politicised: Sachin Pilot

It's easy to see why he is one of the leading lights of the young MPs brigade. A Congress MP from Dausa, Sachin Pilot stole the limelight at the Youth Forum of the India Today Conclave 2008 in New Delhi, getting even more questions than Bollywood star Preity Zinta. The topic of discussion was "If I Could Change The World".

Prior to the session, DMK MP Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Pilot, both co-panelists, joked that they felt like they were entering a Miss World contest. Yes, the panel was full of beautiful people, but the discussion was anything but beauty pageant-like.

Sachin Pilot
Religion should be confined to the home and heart, says Pilot
Pilot's speech was to the point and he focussed on the deliverables. Instead of aspiring for world peace, he wanted to make safe and free drinking water available to all Indians. He suggested that perhaps parliamentarians should pass a legislation to ensure this simple promise.

Pilot also said if he was made PM just for a day, he would remove all the hoardings and posters of political organisations that mar the landscape.

He ended with what he himself conceded was a tough thing to do but "if we segregate religion from politics it will serve the country a great deal. Religion is personal and something that should be confined to the home and the heart and not politicised."

If he can deliver on these pledges then the India that he envisages will certainly be a much better place to live in.

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"If we segregate religion from politics, it will serve the country a great deal. Religion is personal and something that should be confined to the home and the heart and not politicised."
(Conclave 2008)
Sachin Pilot
Member of Parliament
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