Hours after Congress MP Jairam Ramesh termed Centre's decision to award Gita Press a "travesty" and linked it with awarding Savarkar and Godse, his fellow party leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam on Monday said that some people in the grand old party are exactly doing what BJP wants and that lea
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh has slammed the Centre over its decision to award the Gandhi Peace Award for 2021 to Gita Press and said "it is really a travesty and is like awarding Savarkar and Godse"
A day after the Centre conferred Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 on Gita Press, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Monday hit out at the government saying that the decision to award the publisher from Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur is a "travesty" and is like awarding Hindutva ideologue Savarkar
Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Sunday condemned Union Guriraj Singh over his praise of Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse, saying that celebrating or glorifying the person who killed the Father of the Nation is nothing short of an "anti-national act".
Hitting out at the Union minister, Sibal, who also happens to be one of the country's leading advocates, said the BJP and the Rashtriya Swamyamsevak Sangh (RSS), its ideological fountainhead, can never truly acknowledge the contributions of Mahatma Gandhi as they had offered to help the Brit
Former Union Minister Kapil Sibal said on Saturday that the opposition is clear that it must stand united to bring down the BJP-led government in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and expressed hope that all opposition will come together.
Adding fuel to the ongoing controversy in Maharashtra over the social media posts regarding Aurangzeb and Tipu Sultan, Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Friday dubbed Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, as 'Sapoot' (son) of this country.
The Congress on Friday demanded the expulsion of former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat from the BJP for praising Nathuram Godse, the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, as a patriot.
Owaisi, while addressing a programme of his party on Thursday said, "Maharashtra's Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis said 'Aurangzeb ke aulaad.' Do you know everything? I didn't know you (Fadnavis) were such an expert. Then you should know who the children of Godse and Apte too, who are the
"Godse killed Gandhiji, that is a different topic. But as much as I have known Godse, as much as I have read, he was also a patriot, but we do not agree with the murder of Gandhiji," he clarified.
"The central architect of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi, was an NRI. The foundation for India's freedom movement was laid in in South Africa...Nehru, BR Ambedkar, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Subhash Chandra Bose, all were NRIs and had an open mind about the outside world," he said.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, who has been critical of the Uttar Pradesh government over the killing of gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf during police custody while being taken to a hospital for medical checkup in Prayagraj, on Friday compared the accused of th