NEW DELHI: `It is incumbent on us to raise those people who are low down in social, economic and other activities and give them every opportunity of growth and progress, educational and otherwise. ...` observed Pandit Nehru ... in [the] Indian Assembly today [April 3].

.. `We have ... seen how far communalism in politics has led us the grave dangers through which we have passed and the terrible consequences we have seen. ...

[T]he combination of politics and of religion in the narrowest sense of the word, resulting in communal politics, there can be no doubt, is a most dangerous combination and must be put an end to. It is clear ... that this combination is harmful to the country as a whole, it is harmful to the majority, but probably it is most harmful to any minority that seeks some advantage from it; ... But most of all it injures its own interests, because ... it puts a barrier between itself and the others, a barrier not on the religious plane but on the political plane ... even to some extent on the economic plane, and it can never exercise the influence which it legitimately ought aspire to exercise if it functions in that way.