The AKP sees the military, judiciary and state bureaucracy as the last bastion of conservative secularism.

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Reaching the capital of Bhopal, I found the state's Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh, felt the secularism of his Congress party needed to be redefined to take account of India's deeply religious ethos.

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France's strict secularism, entrenched by law since 1905, keeps religion firmly out of the state sphere.

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He also stressed that secularism was the driving force of Turkey's democracy, and that the Turkish state must remain an indivisible whole.

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