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Ansari's remark creating row only because he is Muslim: NCP
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 11 (ANI): The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Friday backed outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari's statement over the growing uneasiness among the country's minority community, stating that only because the latter is a Muslim so it's creating a row
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JDU backs Venkaiah Naidu in slamming Ansari's 'political propaga
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 11 (ANI): After vice-president elect M. Venkaiah Naidu hit back at outgoing vice-president Hamid Ansari's statement by calling it "political propaganda," the Janata Dal (United) (JDU) on Friday came out in support of the former.
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Paresh Rawal mocks Ansari over 'Muslim' remarks, says 'get
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 10 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Paresh Rawal on Thursday fired a sardonic salvo at outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari over his remarks about Muslims of the country.
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PM Modi praises Ansari, says never saw him getting into controversy
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug. 10 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday appreciated outgoing Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari and said that he never saw him getting into controversy.
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Hamid Ansari playing politics by making remarks on sensitive issues: BJP
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] August 10 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday said outgoing Vice President Hamid Ansari is playing politics by making remarks on sensitive issues.
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India best model of secularism: Naidu
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 10 (ANI): Hours ahead of his swearing-in ceremony, Vice-President elect M. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday said that India is the best model of secularism.
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Situation in country fragile: Minorities Commission chairman
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad [India], August 10 (ANI): Echoing the view of outgoing Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Minorities Committee Chairman Abid Rasool Khan termed the current situation in the country as extremely sensitive.
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VP elect Naidu says India is tolerant, people politicise minority issues
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Vice-President elect M. Venkaiah Naidu, a day before his swearing-in ceremony, on Thursday said that the agenda of politics should be development, while also adding that India is the most tolerant country in the world.
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Outgoing VP Hamid Ansari speaks on minorities, democracy in his last RS ad
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): In his last address as the Vice-President, Hamid Ansari on Thursday said that democracy would turn into tyranny, if opposition groups are not given the right to free criticism, adding that a democracy is distinguished by the protection it gives to minority
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BJP, Congress stand divided over Hamid Ansari's statement on Indian M
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has outrightly denied outgoing vice-president Hamid Ansari's assertion on Indian Muslims, saying that there is no better country than India for Muslims, while the Congress has said that the statement is directed toward
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Feeling of unease among Indian Muslims, says outgoing vice-president Hamid
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 10 (ANI): Outgoing vice-president Hamid Ansari, in his last interview before demitting the office, has said that the Muslims in the country were experiencing a "feeling of unease."
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'Missing posters' of Rahul Gandhi pop up in Amethi
Updated : 8 years, 10 months ago IST
Amethi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Aug 8 (ANI): Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's posters saying 'Rahul Gandhi Missing' surfaced in Amethi on Tuesday.
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