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Upendra Kushwaha courts controversy, calls BJP double faced
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Darbhanga (Bihar) [India] Apr 25 (ANI): RLSP leader Upendra Kushwaha has courted controversy, saying BJP is like the person who plays Sita in ram leela but smokes cigarette backstage.
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Digvijaya Singh calls Pulwama attack 'accident', draws BJP ire
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 5 (ANI): Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday courted controversy by terming the dastardly Pulwama terror attack an “accident, drawing a sharp criticism from BJP which said his statement was making headline news in Pakistan.
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Surprised that a 'beef eater' defeated 'nationalist BJP', quips Kailash Vi
Updated : 7 years, 3 months ago IST
Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Feb 24 (ANI): BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Saturday courted controversy after stating that it is shameful for BJP workers that a ‘nationalist government' was defeated by a 'beef eater’, in reference to BJP's SN Singh being defe
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Mayawati is neither a woman nor a man: BJP MLA Sadhana Singh
Updated : 7 years, 4 months ago IST
Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Jan 19 (ANI): BJP Uttar Pradesh MLA Sadhana Singh on Saturday courted controversy by saying that she doesn't think BSP supremo Mayawati is a woman or a man, adding that the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister sold her dignity in exchange for power.
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Actor Raja Choudhary booked for drunken brawl
Updated : 7 years, 12 months ago IST
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], June 2 (ANI): Actor Raja Chowdhary yet again courted controversy on Friday after he allegedly got into a brawl with a group of people under the influence of alcohol in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur city.
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Assam: Union Min interrupts teacher speaking about poor roads
Updated : 8 years ago IST
Nogaon (Assam) [India], May 8 (ANI): Union Minister Rajen Gohain courted controversy at a Swachh Bharat Mission program in Assam's Nagaon on Monday, when he interrupted a retired teacher who was speaking on the poor condition of roads in his area, and questioned his intention behind bringing
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BJP MP threatens action against those who disrespect PM
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Shajapur (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Apr 16 (ANI): A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Madhya Pradesh has courted controversy by threatening action if anyone disrespected Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
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Taj Mahal built by `traitors`; cannot be included in UP tourism booklet: B
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 16 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Sangeet Som has courted controversy, stating that the iconic Taj Mahal was built by traitors and hence, cannot be included in the Indian history.
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Lamba climbed crane only to oversee rescue operation: Fire Services
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 23 (ANI): Clearing the air after Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Alka Lamba courted controversy when she climbed onto a crane to take stock of the rescue operations by fire fighters in Delhi's Chandni Chowk area, Director Delhi Fire Services, G.C. Mishra asserted that L
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PM Modi, Amit Shah are 'terrorists' misleading people of U.P: Sa
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb. 20 (ANI): Samajwadi Party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary courted controversy by branding Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah as 'terrorists', adding that they are trying to mislead voters in Uttar Pradesh to gather
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Committing suicide does not give anyone title of a 'martyr': Man
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], Nov. 3 (ANI): Asserting that the Centre has fulfilled its promise in implementing OROP, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Thursday courted controversy saying that the ex-serviceman who committed suicide cannot be branded as a 'martyr', as brave soldi
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