Empower India Conference and Popular Front
NDF is in coalition with Popular Front of India and co-operated in the Empower India Conference, which was held at Bangalore in February 2007. Popular Front of India is an organisation with an agenda to bring the underprivileged and the marginalised sections like minority communities to come together on one platform. The conference was intended to motivate the underprivileged and marginalised sections like minority communities to work for human rights and social justice.
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