BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi greets the crowd at an election rally in Dhanbad on Tuesday. “I will not make any appeal to Hindus or Muslims, but to the entire 125 crore people of India. If it suits them, then it is fine. If it does not suit them, I am ready to face defeat in the elections, I am ready to be wiped out,” the Gujarat chief minister told CNBC-TV18. “My mantra is that all are one. I cannot accept a divide between brothers of the country in the name of secularism. In the name of secularism, the nation has been divided.” Questioned on the BJP’s objections to Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with Shahi Imam of Delhi’s Jama Masjid, when the saffron party’s president Rajnath Singh had later met Muslim clerics in Lucknow, Modi said the objection was not to the meeting but the “message” going out. “We want Soniaji to meet Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, anybody. It is part of democracy... but a particular community was told whom to vote for.