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
While a lesson on Hedgewar and a poem on Savarkar is out, a letter written by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has found its place in the social science textbook.
Nitin Gadkari criticised the Karnataka government's proposal to revise school textbooks in the State and said that it is "unfortunate" that the chapters on Dr Hedgewar and Swatantra Veer Savarkar have been removed.
"It is unfortunate that the chapters on Dr Hedgewar and Swatantra Veer Savarkar have been removed from the school syllabus. There is nothing more painful than this," said Gadkari on Saturday.
Reacting sharply to Bharatiya Janata Party's uproar after the Karnataka government dropped chapters on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar from school textbooks, Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee president Nana Patole on Friday said that if the BJP has guts then they must take the name of Sa
Slamming the Congress government in Karnataka for dropping chapters on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, Maharashtra Bharatiya Janata Party president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Friday said that the decision was taken on the orders of Rahul Gandhi.
Days after the makers of the movie 'Swatantrya Veer Savarkar' released its teaser, Netaji Subash Chandra Bose's grandnephew, Chandra Kumar Bose, on Tuesday said the film must do justice to Savarkar's personality, adding that there was no need to refer to Netaji, Bhagat Singh and Khudiram
Ramesh also said it is on the same day that President Droupadi Murmu - the first woman from the tribal community to become president - is not allowed to perform her Constitutional duties and inaugurate the new Parliament building.
On the 140th birth anniversary of revolutionary leader Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the makers of 'Swatantrya Veer Savarkar', released the teaser of the film. The movie is all about the life of politician, activist and writer Veer Savarkar. Actor Randeep Hooda, who plays the titular role tal