“So far as I am concerned and the government I lead is concer…”

“So far as I am concerned and the government I lead is concerned, I want to make it perfectly clear that communal forces will not be given the slightest quarter to sow seeds of dissensions among the people.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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Title: Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru
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Context

3 Oct. 1951 , quoted in N.L. Gupta (ed.), Nehru on communalism, New Delhi: Sampradayikta Virodhi Committee, 1975, pp. 229-30. Also quoted in Christophe Jaffrelot, The Hindu nationalist movement in India (1996), p. 80.

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jawaharlal Nehru. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru

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