New Delhi: Reaching out to minorities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday urged his MPs to win the “faith, trust and support” of the minority communities.
Modi, the elected leader of the BJP and NDA parliamentary parties at a ceremony in the Central Hall of Parliament, said, “The minorities have been deceived the same way as the poor. Their education and health should have been in focus… (but) an imaginary fear was created to use them as vote banks.”
“I expect you to be able to pierce this deception. We have to earn their (minorities’) trust. We have to take along our fierce opponents. Without this, the country cannot progress. There should be no discrimination over caste or religion. This is a challenge and we have to do this.”
He said if his first term was about “Sabka sath, sabka vikas (Alongside all, development for all)”, his second would stand for “Sabka sath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas (Alongside all, development for all, trust of all)”.
Senior BJP leaders L.K. Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, and allies such as Parkash Singh Badal, Nitish Kumar, Ram Vilas Paswan, E.K. Palanisamy, BJP president Amit Shah were present at the ceremony in the Central Hall of the Parliament.
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