India: Modi speech on religious tolerance timed to save Budget session

Read my lips: Modi speech on religious tolerance timed to save Budget session
by Sanjay Singh Feb 18, 2015 10:50 IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday finally chose to break his silence on contentious issue of conversions and growing incidences of communal intolerance. His rather candid statement and other developments suggest that Delhi assembly elections and political complications in the upcoming budget session have set alarm bells ringing in the Centre, which along with the constituents of the RSS, are now on a much needed path for course correction. [. . .]

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