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‘People will vote for country where the mind is without fear’: Chidambaram

Press Trust of India | ByPress Trust of India
Apr 26, 2019 01:30 PM IST

Hitting out at BJP chief Amit Shah for saying Congress can’t keep India safe, the former home minister asked who kept the country safe in the three wars fought in 1947, 1965 and 1971.

Charging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi thinks he can rule India by keeping the people in a state of fear, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Friday said the people will vote for a country “where the mind is without fear”.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram(PTI File photo)
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram(PTI File photo)

Hitting out at BJP chief Amit Shah for saying Congress can’t keep India safe, the former home minister asked who kept the country safe in the three wars fought in 1947, 1965 and 1971.

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“What is the meaning of keeping India safe if different sections of people -- women, Dalits, SCs, STs, minorities, academics, writers, journalists etc -- are unsafe?” he asked.

“Mr Modi thinks he can rule India by keeping the people in a state of fear. The people will vote for a country ‘where the mind is without fear......,’“ Chidambaram said alluding to the poem written by Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

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