Thursday 08 Oct 2015 - 22:55 Makkah mean time-25-12-1436
New Delhi (IINA) – India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched for communal harmony and brotherhood in the country, saying Hindus and Muslims should work together to fight the common enemy of poverty and ignore “irresponsible” statements made by politicians, even if he himself makes any.
In his first comments amid communal overtones in the wake of killing of a Muslim by villagers in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh over rumor of eating beef last week, Modi referred to the country’s President Pranab Mukherjee’s speech, saying the countrymen should follow his message given on Wednesday on preserving the core civilizational values of diversity, tolerance and plurality. “I have said it earlier also. Hindus should decide whether to fight Muslims or poverty. Muslims have to decide whether to fight Hindus or poverty....Both need to fight poverty together.... The country has to stay united,” Modi said while addressing an election rally here. “It is the unity, communal harmony, brotherhood and peace that will take the nation forward,” he added.
Asking people to ignore the “irresponsible” statements made by politicians, he said they are doing so for political interests and it should end. “Some politicians are making irresponsible statements for political interests... Such statements should end... Do not pay attention to such statements, even if Modi himself makes any such statement,” the Prime Minister emphasized. Referring to the President’s remarks, he said, “there is no bigger guidance, there is no bigger message, no bigger direction.” “Small time politicians are hell bent on making irresponsible statements for their political interests. You should ignore those statements.... If you need to pay heed, it should be to the guidance given by the President,” Modi said. “Yesterday, the President showed the path. Whatever the head of the country of 1.25 billion people has said, there can be no bigger message, no bigger direction, no bigger inspiration,” Modi said.
He said all the countrymen should tread the path shown by the President and “only then can India meet the expectations that the world has from us.” Mukherjee, while addressing a function on Wednesday, had said, “I firmly believe that we cannot allow the core values of our civilization to be wasted and the core values is what, over the years, the civilization celebrated diversity, promoted and advocated tolerance, endurance and plurality.”
Meanwhile, breaking his silence over the lynching incident in Dadri village, Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief of the state’s ruling Samajwadi Party on Thursday said stern action will be taken in the matter “even if we have to sacrifice the government”, and claimed it was a “pre-planned” conspiracy hatched by “three persons of a specific party”. “The Dadri incident was a pre-planned conspiracy...you will come to know the names. According to the information I have gathered, three persons related to a specific party are behind the incident,” Yadav told reporters here. He said “a party delegation will be sent to Dadri after which it will become clear who these three persons were”. “We will take stern action once the names are clear, whatever sacrifices the government has to make...even if we have to sacrifice our government, we will crush the communal forces,” Yadav said.
He said it was a conspiracy “to oppress the people of a specific community. The SP will not allow this conspiracy to succeed”. He also claimed that communal forces were hatching conspiracies against the SP government which, he said, was gaining popularity because its development works.
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