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Siddaramaiah should apologise to nation for his comments on Savarkar: Yedi
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday said Congress leader Siddaramaiah should apologise to the nation for his comments on Veer Savarkar comparing him with Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse.
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Siddaramaiah slams BJP for propping up Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna awar
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday slammed the BJP for its move to prop up Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar for the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
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If you want to give Bharat Ratna, then give it to Sukhdev, Rajguru, Bhagat
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Aurangabad (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Commenting on the recent controversy over whether Veer Savarkar should be awarded Bharat Ratna, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday stated that the honour should be instead bestowed upon the likes
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Manmohan Singh's statement on Savarkar was misunderstood: Surjewala
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kaithal (Haryana) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): The Congress is seemingly on the backfoot after the Bharatiya Janata Party's proposed idea to back Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna.
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'Indira Gandhi was Savarkar's follower, you won't find a more secular man
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Indira Gandhi was a follower of Veer Savarkar, said his grand-nephew, Ranjeet, who stated that everything that the former prime minister did was "against Nehru and Gandhi's philosophy".
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Veer Savarkar: Did Gandhi visit cellular jail or any Congressman given kal
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Kaithal (Haryana) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): The controversy over whether Veer Savarkar should be accorded with Bharat Ratna has found resonance in Haryana. While the issue has been an emotive one in Maharashtra, owing to Savarkar's connection with the state, BJP and Shiv Sena have been aggre
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Jitendra Singh posts Indira Gandhi's letter praising Veer Savarkar
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday tweeted a letter penned by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in which she praised Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, by calling him a "remarkable son of India".
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Not against Savarkar but the Hindutva ideology he stood for: Manmohan Sing
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Former prime minister Manmohan Singh said that the Congress party is not against Veer Savarkar, but it does not favour the Hindutva ideology that he patronised.
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AIMIM chief Owaisi ignorant about history of India: Telangana BJP
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Telangana BJP on Thursday lashed out at Asaduddin Owaisi stating that the AIMIM chief was ignorant about the history of India and suggested that both he and his brother Akbaruddin Owaisi return to school.
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BJP shouldn't forget Savarkar was named in Mahatama Gandhi's murder conspi
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Hitting out at the BJP for proposing Veer Savarkar's name for the Bharat Ratna, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said that the Centre shall not forget that Savarkar's name was registered in a conspiracy behind Mahatma Gandhi's murder.
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NDA govt should straightaway confer Bharat Ratna to Godse instead of Savar
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tiwari on Wednesday took potshots at the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for propping up the name of Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna in the party's manifesto for the upcoming Maharashtra elections and said that the party sh
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Congress wants to collect Bharat Ratna only for its family: Ravi Shankar P
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 16 (ANI): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday slammed the Congress party after it opposed the BJP for propping up the name of Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna and stated that the grand old party wants to collect Bharat Ratna only for its family.
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