Sharad Pawar steps in amid row over Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar remark; asks Congress to tone down attack

Sharad Pawar steps in amid row over Rahul Gandhi’s Savarkar remark; asks Congress to tone down attack

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharaed Pawar. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Amid strains in the Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance over Rahul Gandhi’s strident criticism of V. D. Savarkar, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar has stepped in to play the peacemaker by conveying the Shiv Sena’s concerns on the issue to the […]

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How will girl child be saved when rapists are felicitated, asks Tushar Gandhi

How will girl child be saved when rapists are felicitated, asks Tushar Gandhi

Author and Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson Tushar Gandhi on Friday asked how Prime Minister Narendra Modi would realise his ‘Beti Bechao, Beti Padhao’ (Save girl child, educate girl child) slogan at a time when the Sangh Parivar was felicitating the convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. On the felicitation accorded to the 11 convicts […]

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Savarkar, Golwarkar didn’t accept national flag: Siddaramaiah

Savarkar, Golwarkar didn’t accept national flag: Siddaramaiah

‘Country got tricolour, Constitution, and national anthem because of Congress’ ‘Country got tricolour, Constitution, and national anthem because of Congress’ Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah took a dig at BJP’s ‘Har Ghar Tiranga’ programme by recalling that RSS leaders V.D. Savarkar and M.S. Golwarkar had not accepted the national flag. Speaking after inaugurating a padayatra programme […]

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