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"Not a racist remark": Congress' Abdur Mandal defends Tejashwi Yadav's 'Ch
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Assam Congress MLA Abdur Rashid Mandal on Sunday defended Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav's "Chinese" remark for Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma saying "I do not think it is a racist remark."
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"Such racist comment...disrespected people of northeast": Gajendra Shekhaw
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat on Sunday termed Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav's remark on Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa as "unfortunate" and racist.
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Eddie Murphy recalls "cheap" joke David Spade made about him
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
American comedian and actor Eddie Murphy talked about the "racist" joke that David Spade made about him on Saturday Night Live, reported People.
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"Lowered level of political discourse...": Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde fl
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Tearing into former Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda over his racist remark against Indians, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday said his statement 'lowered' the level of political discourse in the country.
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Pitroda's remark shows mentality of Congress: UP Deputy CM Keshav Prasad M
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Pitroda, in an interview with 'The Statesman', said, "We have survived 75 years in a very happy environment where people could live together, leaving aside a few fights here and there. We could hold a country together as diverse as India, where people in the East look like Chinese, people
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"Pitroda's statement an assault on India's unity, integrity": BJP's MP chi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The BJP's state chief VD Sharma on Thursday came down heavily on former Indian Overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda over his racist rant against Indians saying the latter's statement was an assault on the unity and integrity of the country.
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“Do they think resignation can erase…?”: Giriraj demands Sonia, Rahul apol
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The massive political row over former Indian Overseas Congress chairperson Sam Pitroda's racist rant against Indians in an interview refused to die down on Thursday, with Union Minister Giriraj Singh demanding that Congress heavyweights Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi extend an apology to t
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"Bakwas ki hai": Robert Vadra on Sam Pitroda's 'racist' remark
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Parting ways with former Indian Overseas Congress chairperson, Sam Pitroda's 'racist' remarks, businessman and Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi's husband, Robert Vadra, on Thursday termed Pitroda's remark as "Bakwas" and said that he completely disagreed with what the latter said.
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"Congress should apologise to the country...," says Yogi Adityanath after
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A day after Congress' Sam Pitroda stirred controversy in the country by making statements on India's diversity, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday demanded that Congress should apologise to the country.
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Congress party has shown its true colour: Nagaland Tourism Minister Temjen
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"The Congress party has shown its true colour in the form of Mr Sam Pitroda, who is the ideologue of the policies of the Congress party. Never too late, but in time they have shown the divisive policies to divide the country by its racist remarks. Mr Sam has to seek an apology from the count
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In the dock over controversial remarks, Sam Pitroda resigns as Chairman of
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Sam Pitroda, whose remarks "people of the east look like the Chinese and those of the south look like Africans" caused a major political furore in election season and embarrassed the Congress, resigned as Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress on Wednesday.
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"I am from South India and I look Indian," says Nirmala Sitharaman after S
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Rebutting the remarks made by Congress leader Sam Pitroda on the diversity of India, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took a jibe at him and said that she is from South India and she looks Indian.
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