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LS rejects notice of breach of privilege against PM

Observing that he had received comments of Vajpayee on the issue, Speaker Manohar Joshi ruled: "I am inclined to accept the clarification given by the prime minister. No question of privilege is, therefore, involved in the matter. The notice of Dasmunshi is disallowed."

Dasmunshi had stated in his notice that Vajpayee, while seeking to clarify misgivings about certain portions of a public speech made by him at Goa, stated on the floor of the House: "What I said about Islam is as follows... Wherever such Muslims live, they tend not to mingle with others; instead of propagating their ideas in a peaceful manner, they want to spread their faith by resorting to terror and threats."

The Congress member contended that in the video recording of the speech, the word "such" had not been used before the word "Muslims" and by this interpolation an attempt was made to alter the meaning of the sentence.

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