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NEW DELHI: The All India Christian Council has
saluted the people of the country for the decisive
manner in which they have rejected “divisive, communal
and sectarian political forces” in the general
elections.
In a statement, the Council said their vote for
secularism, stability and development, imposes on the
party they have trusted with their mandate, the Indian
National Congress, and the architects of its victory,
party president Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh and party general secretary Rahul Gandhi, the
important responsibility of restoring national political
discourse and governance to its pristine values
inscribed in the Constitution and articulated by the
country's founding fathers.
“We hope the national leaders of the party and the
Government will correct the aberrations that crept in
after 1991 leading to the demolition of the secular
fabric of the country, untold misery to the people,
unprecedented bloodshed and massacres of religious
minorities. We also hope that the government will build
on its policies to wage a winning war on poverty, to
ensure food, clothing and shelter to the vast number of
people below the poverty line,” it said.
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