All India Christian Council congratulates Narendra Modi
May 20, 2014 - The All India Christian Council (AICC) has congratulated Prime Minister-elect
Narendra Modi on his massive victory in the Lok Sabha elections, hoping that he would
take India forward. “Narendra Modi's campaign on development was the right one.
This was the main issue Indians were concerned about in 2014. This is one issue where
all Indians are agreed regardless of their religious and caste background,” AICC
said in a statement. The new young India with over a 100 million new voters belonging
to all castes and religions have voted for Modi's promise to deliver jobs, opportunities
and deal with the stagnant economic condition across the nation, it said, adding
that inflation and price rise had demoralized people in urban and rural areas. Referring
to Modi’s ‘other backward classes’ (OBC) origins, the council said that the election
of India’s first OBC Prime Minister is a welcome step in the long process of India's
social reform. “The Christian community expects Modi and his government to take
the community and other minorities along to make India truly inclusive in the great
task of nation building,” the AICC statement said. It said that the community also
expected the new prime minister and his cabinet to keep extremist forces at bay and
hoped that there will be an end to the anti-Christian violence in different states.
(Source: UCAN)