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This is an archive article published on February 26, 2004

But, symbolically…

* Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee showed up in a pair of pyjamas, abandoning his trade-mark dhoti. * Saffron gave way to green as Dewan...

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* Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee showed up in a pair of pyjamas, abandoning his trade-mark dhoti.

* Saffron gave way to green as Dewan of Moinuddin Chishti’s Durgah, Zain-ul-Abedin, tied green turbans around BJP’s top heads — Vajpayee and party chief Venkaiah Naidu.

* Vajpayee and Finance Minister Jaswant Singh tried hard to blend Urdu words like janaab and izzat bakshi in their Hindi speeches.

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* Muslim leaders in turn made it a point to own up Sangh Parivar by referring to RSS leaders as ‘‘hamare (K.S.) Sudarshan sahib.’’

* Naidu reeled off the names of Muslims on top in all fields — from President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to Maharashtra Governor Mohammad Fazal, Mohammad Azharuddin and Shahrukh Khan.

* ‘‘Even my father-in-law is named Mastnaiah, after a Pir,’’ said Naidu.

‘Vajpayee
didn’t demolish’

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