NEW DELHI: RSS-affiliated weekly ‘The Organiser’ has termed the growing claims for restoration of “temples” which are now sites of mosques as a quest for “our national identity and seeking civilisational justice“, rather than a push for majoritarian supremacy.“Instead of limiting the debate to the Hindu-Muslim question from the pseudo-secularist prism, we need a sane…
NEW DELHI: The controversy over Union home minister Amit Shah’s alleged “insult” of Ambedkar will figure prominently in the special CWC meeting called in Belagavi to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi becoming the Congress president, the party said, as it named the public meeting to be held on the second day as “Jai…
From (left) Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami. NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday launched a massive coordinated counterstrike against the Congress party, which has been mounting pressure on the saffron party to apologise over Union home minister Amit Shah’s remark on Ambedkar.Even…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, outrightly refuted the BJP’s allegations that he shoved the ruling party’s MPs at the House entrance, cliaming that its one of the new tatics by the BJP to divert attention from the uproar over Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remark on Ambedkar and Adani issue….
NEW DELHI: The BJP, which had the Congress literally on the backfoot for almost four days during the Constitution debate in Parliament, at the end found itself cornered by all opposition parties as it defended Union home minister Amit Shah‘s remark on B R Ambedkar which was part of his reply in Rajya Sabha on…
NEW DELHI: Seeking to corner BJP during a discussion on Constitution in Parliament, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the saffron party’s “supreme leader” – V D Savarkar – had called ‘Manusmriti‘ better than the Constitution and asked if BJP wasn’t mocking him by praising Ambedkar and the Constitution.Rahul invoked the legend of Eklavya…
Former Shiggaon MLA Sayed Azeempeer Khadri stirred controversy with contentious remarks on Monday. HAVERI:Former Shiggaon MLA, Sayed Azeempeer Khadri, sparked a controversy on Monday with his remarks suggesting that Dr BR Ambedkar, the architect of the Constitution, was ready to convert to Islam. Speaking at an Adi Jambava community event in connection with the Shiggaon…
No political party in power took this short step despite SC goadingNEW DELHI: When the Constitution was just a year-old, law minister B R Ambedkar had stoically met the charge that the Hindu Code Bill, 1951, was communal in nature as it aimed to codify the personal law of one religious community leaving aside the…
PATNA/GAYA: In a strong affirmation of the Constitution’s primacy amid claims by the opposition that BJP intends to “scrap” it if voted back to office, PM Narendra Modi said Tuesday that he was indebted to “Ambedkar’s samvidhan” for preserving the country’s diversity, facilitating equitable economic growth and enabling someone like him to “rise from humble…
