India is proud of being a democracy based on the constitution, and this is due to the country's diversity in terms of religion, languages, tribes, and cultures. Since India attained independence, the constitutional framework has always distinguished itself with respect to the rest of the world through the embrace of constitutional secularism, which meant that the nation was a democratic polity in which different religions did not have privileged status and could not exercise undue influence over the running of affairs of the state.
