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I appreciate Modi but secularism is must: Jagan

Hyderabad: YSR Congress president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy Monday said he appreciates BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi as an administrator but advised him to stop creating insecurity in the minds of Muslims, saying this will

IANS Updated on: October 01, 2013 11:46 IST
Jagan, as the MP from Kadapa is popularly known, was addressing his first press conference after his release from jail after 16 months in a corruption case.



"We continue to be secular. I am not like Chandrababu Naidu who takes any kind of U-turns. We are secular and we are committed to being secular," he said when asked which formation his party would support in New Delhi after the 2014 election.

"When it comes to Narendra Modi, as an administrator I have appreciation for him but the fact is that whether it is Muslim, Christian or Hindu, all of us born here, all of us will continue to live here and all of us will die here.

"Why I am saying this because I am from this generation. What I want is peace and development. When everybody who is born here, who is going to live here and who is going to die here, then why do you create insecurity in the minds of these people just because they are born in another religion?

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