Make sure that you get through this picture down in your subconscious mind and avoid getting into an imbroglio with the participants as everyone has a right to hold the opinion and one may not be able to enforce his opinion on others as our country is vast with different ideologies.
The best thing one can do is to put across the point and can add that "One can agree to disagree or disagree to agree to close the issue. Thereafter you should not respond.
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