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This is an archive article published on December 6, 1999

PM to release Christ stamp on Dec 25

NEW DELHI, DEC 5: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will send a strong signal to the Sangh Parivar hardliners by releasing a stamp on De...

NEW DELHI, DEC 5: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will send a strong signal to the Sangh Parivar hardliners by releasing a stamp on December 25 to mark the “millennium birth anniversary” of Jesus Christ.

Communications Minister Ram Vilas Paswan suggested that the step was a signal to the Christian community, which has been at the receiving end of the Sangh leaders’ barbs during the recent visit of Pope John Paul II.“The PM has consented to release the stamp and officials of the Communication Ministry are deliberating with the Archbishop to finalise the picture to be printed on it,” Paswan said.

“We are confident of tackling the RSS opposition to the move, if there is any. How can Sangh activists oppose and disrupt a function of their own Prime Minister,” was the cryptic reply of the Communication Minister.

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