The toilet vs temple question

As is his wont, Jairam Ramesh has sparked off a debate by saying something provocative. His statement about there being more temples than toilets in the country has sparked off a controversy, the best and perhaps only way to get conversation about any subject going in India. The protests come from the BJP, that sees in his statement, an attack on faith, and its more extreme and uninhibited partners the VHP and Bajrang Dal which rail against the marking out of temples as against mosques and churches, claiming religious discrimination.

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