He tried to control damage by tweeting later that his remarks had been distorted and he had no intention of hurting religious sentiments.
Rediff.com's Swarupa Dutt speaks to the mother of the Unnao rape survivor who met with a near-fatal road accident on Sunday.
The convoy started from Bhalla college ground and went to Har ki Pauri with a host of party leaders and family members in attendance.
Former PM H D Deve Gowda on his party's prospects in the coming elections.
'My passion is dancing and music. What is wrong with that?'
Violence erupted after some students, protesting against the alleged eve-teasing incident, wanted to meet the vice chancellor at his residence, according to police and university sources.
'Probably only Sonia-ji knows the extent of what he is doing.'
The appointment of Yogi Adityanath as UP CM, the revival of the Ram Temple movement, the elevation of a ban on cow slaughter as a national priority, and the targeting of any social behaviour deemed contrary to a set of narrowly prescribed Indian values point to a social regression that contradicts the inclusive and forward-looking impulse that underlies Modi's vision of a modern India.
If Modi and Shah did not project Adityanath as CM, it was out of expediency, says Radhika Ramaseshan.
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