Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar shares stage today with Mulayam Singh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party and others at a convention against communalism.
Here are the highlights:
Here are the highlights:
- I congratulate the Left parties for organising the anti-communalism meet
- There are 17 political parties here - we will not tolerate communalism, that's the message
- Sitaram Yechury said I'm in the firing line - I want to tell him, we're like a rock. Any bullet with bounce off us
- We have stuck to our principles.
- This isn't a risk, it's a gamble. We will face the consequences
- The effort is to create a rift in society
- Some people don't want this 'ganga-jamuni tehzeeb' to be intact
- We have to be careful of elements who want to exploit polarisation
- We will not tolerate communalism
- Everyone has a right to pray, but there is a time for that but these days it's done every second
- Some people think that they will gain out of riots
- We created a commission to re-investigate the Bhagalpur riots and we brought those responsible to justice
- Those who sold off their land in distress - in 18 cases - the land has been restored to their rightful owners and they also got compensation
- We shouldn't have such incidents - we can stake our lives but we'll not let anything disturb communal harmony
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