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Modi cancelled Christmas tea party 10 days ago to make way for Lahore trip, says report

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The government’s claim that Modi’s Lahore visit was not planned is being hotly contested.   It has emerged that Modi had cancelled all his engagements on December 25, to keep the day clear for an unknown engagement.   Modi had earlier planned a major initiative on the Christmas Day to show he was not anti-minority.
Modi had earlier planned a major initiative on the Christmas Day
to show he was not anti-minority
December 26, 2015, NewsCrunch

The government’s claim that Modi’s Lahore visit was not planned is being hotly contested.

It has emerged that Modi had cancelled all his engagements on December 25, to keep the day clear for an unknown engagement.

Modi had earlier planned a major initiative on the Christmas Day to show he was not anti-minority.

Arun Jaitley was to host a tea party for influential leaders of Christian community, who have been critical of the growing intolerance in the country.

Modi, who avoids iftaar parties, was not part of the tea ceremony, officially. He was supposed to drop in at the tea party, much the way US presidents do, when their underlings hold important meetings.

The Telegraph reports that when Modi was in Kochion December 14, he had sought a postponement of the tea party during a meeting with Cardinal Mar George Alencherry, the archbishop of the Syro-MalabarChurch.

Modi told the archbishop that he regretted the inconvenience that had been caused to community leaders but did not give any reason for putting off the event.

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