Ahmedabad, 17 September, 2011

Generally when a leader like Advani speaks once on the stage, he doesn’t come again on mike to give another speech. But today it happened so. Shri Advaniji completed his speech at Narendra Modi’s Sadbhavana mission fast event, but soon after some time he again came to mike after he saw J.Jayalalitha’s AIDMK emissaries on the stage.

Advani said he usually would not come to mike again, but he had to stand up again because AIDMK emissaries had arrived after completion of his speech. Advani welcomed AIDMK’s leader in Rajya Sabha and leader in Lok Sabha and recollected that Modi was the only NDA Chief Minister who was invited by J.Jayalalitha to grace her oath taking ceremony. Shri Advani also mentioned that his party has been supported regularly in parliament by Jayalalitha’s MPs either on the issue of corruption or price hike. Advani also said that Jayalalitha has sent a significant message by sending her message and emissaries.

Before AIDMK emissary Dr.Maitreyan stood up to speak, BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad came to mike and requested him to speak in Hindi, however both AIDMK leaders spoke in English. Dr.Maitreyan said he was connected to Mr. Modi since 1991 when Bharat Ekta Yatra was organized. Shri Thamidurai of AIDMK said like Mr. Modi, AIDMK also believes in communal harmony.

In Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa extended support to a three-day fast for communal amity initiated by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.

Stressing that Modi’s fast was in sync with the secular policy adopted by her All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazahagam (AIADMK) party, Jayalalithaa said she had sent two emissaries as a goodwill gesture to Ahmedabad.

“Mr. Narendra Modi has announced that he is going on a fast for communal harmony, and peace and unity. This is also in line with our policy of secularism and maintaining communal harmony and peace. Mr. Narendra Modi spoke to me on the telephone and asked me to send someone to felicitate his fast. So I have decided to send our two members of parliament,” Jayalalithaa told media persons on the sidelines of a function in the southern city of Chennai.

Jayalalithaa lashed out at Modi’s critics, stressing that his move was aimed at fostering an atmosphere of peace and inter-religious harmony.

“This is just an expression of goodwill. There is nothing to find fault, with this fast, because it is for the expressed purpose of maintaining communal peace and harmony, fostering communal peace and harmony,” said Jayalalithaa.