Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Tuesday asked the Narendra Modi government in Gujarat to ensure the safety of the lives, properties and dignity of all the people, but insisted that the Muslims were still not 'repentant' for the Godhra carnage pointing to their lack of unequivocal condemnation of the incident.

"Why didn't many people of the Muslim community condemn the Godhra incident? Even today, there is no repentance that we committed a mistake or that this should not have happened and that it was a crime," Vajpayee said while addressing the BJP parliamentary party meeting in Delhi.

"But we have to live together. Now, we have to take the responsibility of keeping everyone together. We have got a majority in Gujarat and we are also in power at the Centre. We have to protect the life, property and dignity of all and build a nation without any discrimination," he said.

Vajpayee advised Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to make a new beginning by carrying along even all those who opposed the BJP.

He said the Gujarat election results showed that people do not want the Congress but asked the party not to be overconfident and work towards the party's success in the coming assembly polls in ten states.

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