"To say that the BJP is communal is absolutely absurd and without any basis."

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“I appeal to the Muslim community ... to join the national mainstream.... What we want is that all of us... should ... feel and think as Indians and should not get into separate compartments.”

“In the true sense, we are all Hindus although we may practise different religions. ... It is the distinction between Hindus and non-Hindus that has created all the trouble in this country and has even led to the partition of our motherland. ... If the distinction were to go then there will be no conflict between Hindus and non-Hindus.”

“I am a Hindu because I trace my ancestry to my Aryan forefathers.”

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