Although the Indian government allows for freedom of religion, its constitution provides special rights to minorities and their places of worship. More over, minority institutes also receive government patronage in form of Exemption from 2005 Amendment to the Article 15, 95% grant-in-aid, College Scholarship to pursue higher education.[50][51][52][53] Some states like Tamil Nadu, offer reservation in education for Muslims and Christians. The Indian government offers huge subsidies for Muslims towards Haj Pilgrimage while other religious people including Hindus have no such schemes to help them. The ruling political parties often subscribe to ideologies which are inherently hostile or prejudiced towards Hindu religion. Thus, Hindu institutes live under constant threat of ideologically motivated government take-over and subsequent destruction. For instance the Dravidian parties who have been ruling Tamil Nadu for over four decades believe in discredited racial theory and are openly anti-Hindu. Ruling ideology has a history of publicly issuing threats and has carried out those threats in many instances.[54][55][56] At some junctures, interpretation of the laws has also disadvantaged Hindus[57] Recently the issue of Love Jihad created huge controversy in Southern India, although similar incidents were ignored in Northern India.
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