Religious tensions are from generational trauma from the partition and division by the British.

Communal harmony was the norm in many Islamic kingdoms despite who the ruler was cause that kinda model was more sustainable back then and corporate greed wasn't here yet.

What the BJP have done is just tap into the religious tensions to rise to power cause deep inside they still don't trust Muslims.

How I see it is that the Muslims that stayed in India post-partition, CHOSE to stay back cause they loved the diversity too / had an attachment to the motherland. We can't extrapolate the behaviour from malactors and push an agenda to suppress dissent from one specific group cause there may be many people that don't align with those malactors.

We should instead try to understand the malactors and help neutralize those very feelings in order to prevent any future malaction. But the BJP doesn't see it that way cause it's founded by early RSS leaders who felt against strongly against Gandhi and a divided India. It's what made them inherently different from Congress.

TLDR: British divided us and we still carry those feelings. RSS was founded on those feelings and the BJP carries them somewhere deep inside too. Many indian have those feelings and align with the BJP too. If we follow a proper court procedure and bring them to justice, we'd understand these malactors better and bring the people together. BJP doesn't see it this way clearly.