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Beware `five-star activists', Modi tells Muslims

AHMEDABAD DEC. 27. The Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi, today accused critics and NGOs of dividing the society on communal lines while urging the Muslim community to beware of such "five-star activists", who are trying to mislead them.

"Muslim society has suffered badly in the last decade due to vote-bank politics of the Congress and a handful of extremist people. Today, this bandwagon of five-star activists is trying to play upon their emotions and conspiring to mislead the entire society," Mr. Modi said at a function to disburse cheques to depositors of a beleaguered cooperative bank in Dholka town of the district today.

Mr. Modi gave away cheques worth Rs. 4 crores to 3,878 depositors, most of them Muslims, of Janta Commercial Co-operative Bank. It had to be liquidated after it plunged into severe financial crisis. "Miscreants and dishonest people do not belong to any community. Muslim society has to wake up to vote-bank politics and keep the fundamentalists at bay while recognising their genuine community leaders," he said. — PTI

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