Gogoi appeals to secular forces to come on common platform

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi today appealed to all secular forces to come on a common platform to "prevail" over "divisive forces" in the country.
In a statement here, Gogoi said the Bihar Assembly elections would be a right platform to demonstrate solidarity of secular forces to prevail over divisive forces and urged everybody to show their allegiance to secular parties.
He also urged the voters of Bihar to vote for secular parties to outmanoeuvre the "sinister designs of communal forces to drive a rift in society on communal lines".
Gogoi said that the Bihar Assembly elections is crucial to choose parties that stand for communal harmony and economic development over other parties that are "encouraging anti-poor policies, trigger discord and communal tensions."

"A retrospective view gives an impression that in the last few days there seems to be a deliberate attempt by certain forces to create communal tension and vitiate the atmosphere", the Chief Minister asserted.
"A few incidents that have taken place in the country are clear examples of how a minor tiff snowballed into a situation of communal cauldron," Gogoi said, adding that putting the BJP and its allies on the saddle in Bihar in such a situation would be detrimental to the age-old communal harmony in society.