...The Communist Party of India strongly disapproves and deprecates the demand made by Imam Syed Abdullah Bukhari on December 14 calling upon the United Nations to send a peace keeping force to India to control communal situation.

...The CPI cannot but strongly disapprove his demand to invite outside forces in our country.

This will be against the nation's prestige and honour and against national interests. Moreover, such a demand will only play into the hands of communal forces...

The CPI, therefore, appeals to the Shahi Imam to desist from making such suggestions and demands...

• The BJP is spreading religious venom like a drop of lemon juice that spoils the whole milk.
  — V.P. Singh
• Secularism is not a political strategy; it is a basic value.
  — Chandra Shekhar