Rahul’s statement on Hindutva gave BJP opportunity to do politics: Mayawati
Taking a dig at both sides, she said both the “ruling and the opposition should be serious inside and outside the Parliament”.
Taking a dig at both sides, she said both the “ruling and the opposition should be serious inside and outside the Parliament”.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and Congress Rajya Sabha MP, Digvijaya Singh said that Bajrang Dal would not be banned…
Thackeray said, "On one hand they read Hanuman Chalisa and on other hand, they go to mosques & listen Qawali, is this their Hindutva?"
The BJP seems to be changing its Hindutva model strategy and is focussing more on folk Gods in poll-bound Rajasthan.
The idea of nationality as a marker of belonging emanating from one’s ancestral land is neither new nor unique.
The remarks by the BJP ally assume significance as they come after a vitriolic Delhi Assembly polls campaign in which some BJP leaders were rapped by the Election Commission for making inflammatory speeches.
CM also said that she would soon write to other Chief Ministers requesting them to desist from conducting the National Population Register (NPR) exercise in their states.
BJP's politics of divisiveness, communalism had caused enmities between religion groups while development has taken the back seat, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said in a statement.
Although VD Sarvarkar, the then president of the Hindu Mahasabha, kept demanding Akhand Bharat or undivided India, ironically he was the one who propounded the twonation theory in 1923, in his book Hindutva, 17 years before Jinnah did in 1940. MS Golwalkar, the head of the RSS, also felt that the freedom movement should not be an anti-British struggle for territorial gains, instead it ought to be a movement towards establishing a Hindu nation. The Congress leadership had increasingly sidelined Gandhi by the end of 1946
The names of railway stations in Uttarakhand on platform signboards still appear in Urdu as most of them belong to the period when the state was part of Uttar Pradesh where Urdu is the second official language.
