NEW DELHI: Tensions within Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) continue to simmer, with Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Aaditya Thackeray hitting out at the Maharashtra unit of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and its chief, Abu Azmi, for the intention to withdraw from the alliance over “Hindutva credentials.”“Our Hindutva is about ‘hriday mein Ram aur haath ko kaam’ (Ram…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday lit into Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for resuming his attack on Veer Savarkar after keeping mum on the Hindutva ideologue during the poll campaign in Maharashtra where he is revered as a social reformer and nationalist.The party cited PM Narendra Modi‘s remarks during the Maharashtra campaign that Rahul” silence was…
NEW DELHI: In the ongoing Maharashtra assembly polls, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s slogan ‘Batenge toh Katenge‘ has sparked debate amongst political leaders, deputy chief ministers Ajit Pawar and Devendra Fadnavis expressing opposing viewpoints.While Nationalist Congress Party leader Ajit Pawar said that he does not endorse the slogan, BJP leader Fadnavis, his coalition partner…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Monday trashed a fresh attempt to equate ‘Hindutva‘ with fundamentalism by outrightly rejecting a PIL by a 65-year-old doctor seeking to get the term, which he claimed was inimical to secular fabric, replaced with ‘Bhartiya Samvidhanatva‘.This was the third challenge in SC to “Hindutva” since 1994 when the apex court,…
Uddhav Thackeray and CM Ekanth Shinde at Dusshera rallies in Mumbai Dusshera rallies addressed by CM Eknath Shinde and Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday set the tone for the impending Maharashtra assembly elections. The rival factions — Shiv Sena and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray, or UBT) — hurled piercing jibes at one another, heating up…
BENGALURU/NEW DELHI: Karnataka health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao‘s remarks on Hindutva ideologue and freedom fighter Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, claiming that Savarkar consumed meat and was not opposed to cow slaughter have sparked outrage across political circles. The controversy erupted on Thursday, a day after Rao’s comments during the launch of the Kannada version of ‘Gandhi’s…
NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of engaging in “power jihad” by breaking political parties to remain in government. Thackeray’s remarks came on Saturday in Pune as he countered Union minister Amit Shah‘s comment dubbing him the head of the “Aurangzeb Fan Club.” Thackeray further accused Shah…
NEW DELHI: Hyderabad MP and AIMIM chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, on Saturday expressed his disapproval of the Uttar Pradesh government‘s recent order mandating that all shops and eateries display the names of their owners and employees. In a tweet, Owaisi underscored the underlying sentiment by sharing a story from TOI, stating, “Fear on UP’s kanwar routes:…
The RSS has taken a backseat in the Lok Sabha campaign in Kerala this time -it could be due to BJP’s attempt to veil its hard-line Hindutva face in the run-up to the election or the fallout of BJP asserting its political authority over its parent organisation in Kerala too.Not only are saffron flags and…
