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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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"Congress believes India is a land of invaders," says BJP chief K Annamala
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"The Congress mindset and thinking believes that India is a land of invaders and we are descendants of invaders. And this is why his remark is a sexist, crass and abusive thing. The connotation is that we are descendants of these people, not 'Bharatiya'," said Annamalai.
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Congress sees India in pieces: Kangana Ranaut on Sam Pitroda's controversi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"The mindset of Congress is such that they see India in pieces. That is why Congress is filled with 'tukde-tukde' gang," Ranaut who is BJP's candidate from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi said on Wednesday.
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Sam Pitroda resigns as Indian Overseas Congress chairperson, BJP leaders l
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"Mr Sam Pitroda has decided to step down as Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress of his own accord. The Congress President has accepted his decision," Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said on X.
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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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Union Minister Kiren Rijiju slams Congress over Pitroda's remark, says "bi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Rijiju said that the Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress, Sam Pitroda, has categorized Indians based on different looks, which could lead to a split in thinking regarding unity and integrity.
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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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"This is why our PM says that we need Congress-mukt Bharat": Annamalai on
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Pitroda has stirred controversy after remarking that Indians in the East resemble the Chinese while those in the South look like Africans.
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"Condemn racist remarks, will seek legal opinion" says Manipur CM Biren Si
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Soon after Congress leader Sam Pitroda courted a new controversy by tagging people residing in various regions of India with a certain facial feature, Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh said he is weighing in legal options to book the former.
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"Congress' mindset is 'Bharat ko andar se todo, bahar se jodo": BJP rips
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Further, he said that those affected by the ideas of such foreign advisors can't understand the idea when the Prime Minister says that India is the mother of democracy.
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"American uncle abusing people on basis of colour," PM Modi in Warangal hi
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
"... Where will they take the country? No matter what skin colour we have, we are the people who worship Lord Krishna...," he said.
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