Right-wing groups, including the RSS and Sangh Parivar, have called for a boycott, alleging that the movie serves as propaganda against Hindus.
BSP supremo Mayawati on Friday accused the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party of using one of its Dalit leaders to gain political mileage in the wake of the Rajput ruler Rana Sanga controversy.
The ongoing row over the controversial remarks on Maharana Sanga by Samajwadi Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman turned ugly with a Rajput outfit, Shri Rashtriya Rajput Karni Sena Mewar, offering a cash reward of Rs 5.51 lakh to any one who 'chops off and brings the tongue of the MP’.
Amid raging controversy over his party MP Ramji Lal Suman's remarks on Rajput ruler Rana Sanga, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said his party believes in social justice and establishment of an equilibrium society.
Karnataka BJP MLA SR Vishwanath stirred controversy in the state assembly with remarks that reignited the debate on migration and crime in Bengaluru.
Congress veteran Sam Pitroda, who heads the party's overseas unit, has courted a new controversy after claiming that the threat from China is often blown out of proportion. The BJP lambasted the grand old party saying that friendship between Congress and China is quite old.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday reignited yet another controversy by alleging that foreign powers, led by billionaire investor George Soros’ network, influenced a major decision of the Assam Congress in 2014.
Congress-ally Indian Union Muslim League's (IUML) state general secretary P M A Salam has sparked a controversy by stating that gender equality was “a misbelief” and anyone claiming that is only closing their eyes to make it dark . He said that men and women are not equal. He also said that the world has not accepted that they are equal.
The body of 78-year-old Gopan Swami, exhumed earlier for a post-mortem examination following legal and public scrutiny of his family’s claim of ‘samadhi,’ was reinterred in a grand religious ceremony at his residence in Neyyattinkara on Friday.
In light of these allegations, Minister Patel met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath last night to present his side of the story.
