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"Our Government’s top priority is to fully protect the minorities wherever they are. To accord protection to the minorities is a constitutional duty of the Centre and the State Governments, regardless of which Party is in power.
I would request the Home Minister, Shri L.K. Advani to hold talk with the Chief Ministers of the States concerned to prevent recurrence of such trends.
I endorse Shri Scindia’s proposal for a meeting of the National Integration Council to evolve a political consensus against fanatics on all sides. I would convey his suggestion to the Prime Minister."

The President of the BJP unit of Assam is a Member of Parliament,. I do not know whether he is here. He is not. He went to the Governor of Assam. He came back and according to the Assam Press had given a memoranda to the Home Minister of India, Shri L.K. Advani and the Prime Minister of the country, Shri Vajpayee that in Assam he was the President and in his constituency the Hindus were being given notices by the Police on the plea that they were foreigners, and in other parts as Muslims.

I have here 52 notices served by the Assam Government, all authenticated by me, on Sabita Biswas, J. Biswas, S. Biswas, G. Biswas, and then Shri Dutto, Shri Dutto, Shri Dutto and Shri Das. All are supported by their voters’ list published before 1971. There are also affidavits before the court saying that they are in Government service. All these, after my speech, I will lay on the Table of the House.

Sir, I have a lot of respect for Shri L.K. Advani. … (Interruptions) People say that he is the Patel of India. I never used to dispute it because I had a lot of respect for him. But the answer of the Minister of State in the Ministry of Home Affairs in the Rajya Sabha has shocked me.
It has sent a wave of distrust about your Government all over Assam. When answers are given by your officers, ask them to please write down the correct answers. They mislead you. This is not your brain. This is the reply given in Rajya Sabha. I would request you, Mr. Home Minister, to enquire about it. When a memorandum was being given to you by one of your BJP Members, I told him to be present in the House. He said, he will be. But out of fear he has gone now. He is not here.