Communal politics is based on the idea that religion is the principal basis of social community. This ideology is itself full of flaws for the following reasons : (i) It believes that the followers of a particular religion must belong to one community. (ii) Their fundamental interests are the same. (iii) It believes that people who follow different religions cannot belong to same social community. (iv) Their interests are bound to be different and involve a conflict. (v) In its extreme form, communalism leads to the belief that people belonging to different religions cannot live as equal citizens within one nations. Either, one of them has to dominate the other, or they have to form different nations, e.g., Pakistan was formed as a result of communal beliefs.