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Quotes from Rajiv Gandhi Selected Speeches and Writings — Rajiv Gandhi

1944–1991 India

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Communalism has been the traditional tool that has been used historically to weaken our country. The colonial concept of divide and destroy has not changed even today. This attempt, which is carried on not just in India but in other parts of the world also, did not end with the assassination of Indiraji; it has continued.

Rajiv Gandhi Selected Speeches and Writings (1986)

Secularism is the bedrock of our nationhood, secularism as defined not in the English dictionaries, where it is defined as 'non-religious' or 'anti-religious', but secularism the way Panditji defined it as Sarva Dharma Samabhava which allows every religion to flourish in our country.

Rajiv Gandhi Selected Speeches and Writings (1986)

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