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Rajaji also has been quoted in this book saying:

"A myth had grown about Patel that he would be harsh towards Muslims. This was wrong but it was a prevailing prejudice. "

I am saying that this is the kind of handicap with which this Government started.

SHRI ADHIR CHOWDHARY (BERHAMPORE, WEST BENGAL): Are you equating yourself with Sardar Patel?

SHRI L.K. ADVANI: No, I am talking of this Government. I am not talking of any individual. I have all along been very particular about it.

मेरे संदर्भ में जब सरदार पटेल की बात की जाती है तो मैं विचलित फील करता हूं क्योंकि वे बहुत महान आदमी थे।

SHRIMATI MARGARET ALVA (CANARA): I spoke about a pamphlet on the Constitution. I never said that you were part of the high hate campaign. But if that is the impression you have got, I am sorry. But I did not mean that. I apologise .

SHRI L.K. ADVANI: I accept what you say, because I have never written any pamphlet after the formation of the Commission. But earlier, I had delivered so many speeches on the Constitution and what should be done about it.

SHRI MADHAVRAO SCINDIA (GUNA): I would like to ask you one simple question. I would not like to interrupt otherwise.

SHRI A.C. JOS (TRICHUR): There is no credibility. It might have been formed by the Parliament but its Members do not have any credibility.
SHRI L.K. ADVANI: I am sorry, this is not the way. That way, no Commission would have any credibility. We had set up Wadhwa Commission which came to the conclusion that Dara Singh has nothing to do with any Hindu organisation. Even Wadhwa Commission was criticised.… (Interruptions) Shrimati Alva, you are not right. I have found out from the Report and that Report has been placed on the Table of the House along with the Action Taken Report.… (Interruptions)
SHRI PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSI : I am glad that you are admitting this fact today after 50 years.
SHRI L.K. ADVANI: Shri Dasmunsi, I have been in Parliament for nearly 30 years now. If you were to go through my speeches 10 years’ ago or 15 years’ ago, you will find the same thing. I have written so much on this that in India anything apart from secularism not in the Western sense which has gradually become identified… (Interruptions). Over a period of time सेक्यूलरिज़्म का अर्थ हो गया इर्रिलीजियस स्टेट। Nothing to do with religion. That is not the concept. The concept from the very beginning has been that all religions are equal, all religions are to be respected, and the State shall not discriminate between one citizen and another on grounds of his religion.