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India will never be intolerant: Arun Jaitley

by IBNS 02 Nov 2015, 09:31 pm

New Delhi, Nov 3 (IBNS): Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said India has never been 'intolerant'.

"This country has never been and will never be intolerant," Jaitley said while addressing a press conference here.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday met President Pranab Mukherjee to raise concern about the rising intolerance in the country.

As a mark of protest, she along with her son will lead a delegation of Congress from Parliament to President House on Tuesday.

This comes in the backdrop of scores of  writers, filmmakers, scientists, historians returning awards for rising intolerance and murder of rationalists Dr Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare and MM Kalburgi besides the lynching of  Mohammad Akhlaq over rumours of consuming beef in Uttar Pradesh' Dadri area.

Expressing her concern over rising intolerance, Sonia had  vowed to fight the "diabolical design" of divisive forces to spread hatred, which she said "poses a threat to the unity of the country."