While reacting to NCP leader Jitendra Awhad's comment where he mentioned that The Kerala story filmmaker should be hanged, Kirit Somaiya said, " This is not the Uddhav Thackeray government in Maharashtra where this movie will get banned. Is Jitendra Awhad worried about Muslim voters?"
A four-member team of the NCPCR reached here on Monday (May 8) for investigation following the complaint against the ashram. NCPCR chairman Priyanka Kanungo, Omkar Singh, Dr Nivedita Sharma and Rekha Pawar were in the team.
Addressing a joint press conference after the meeting, Patnaik said, "Ours is a known friendship and we were colleagues many years ago. No discussion was held on any alliances today. Land in Puri is being given free of cost to the Bihar government to build a Bihar Bhawan there."
"Under the name of 'The Kerala Story', a state and its women were defamed. The official figure of three was projected as 32,000. The person who produced this fictional movie should be hanged in public," NCP leader Awhad said.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane on Sunday described Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut as a "snake" and claimed that he will ditch Thackeray and join Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on June 10.
Speaking to media persons on Sunday, Pawar said the parents of several of these stranded students met him at his residence in Baramati, requesting his intervention in ensuring their rescue.
Tamil Nadu DGP without mentioning Governor R N Ravi and NCPCR letter said that information is being spread on forceful virginity tests. "Which is totally fake and false information"
A day after withdrawing his decision to resign as the Nationalist Congress Party chief, Sharad Pawar on Saturday said that the u-turn was due to requests from "national-level leaders" and that it was not the right time to step aside.
Apart from his party workers, some opposition leaders including Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin had also urged Pawar to reconsider his decision due to his role in forging opposition unity
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar welcomed NCP chief Sharad Pawar's decision to withdraw his resignation from the post of party president on Friday.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar, who withdrew his decision to quit as party chief on Friday, also refuted speculations of a rift in the NCP. However, Pawar also said that if anybody wants to leave, nobody can stop them.