While Agarwal said the government was trying to change character of the country, his other party colleagues said the names of persons 'who have made no contribution to the freedom struggle' are being given.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday denied making a direct comparison between Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Mahatma Gandhi."I never compared Modi to Mahatma Gandhi," Gadkari told reporters in Bengaluru, asserting that there were video clippings of his speech to prove it. "I said that Modi, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Deedayal Upadhyaya, was carrying out programmes to help the poor and was following in their footsteps," he said.
His slogan-chanting comes in the wake of Peoples Democratic Party chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti's criticism that Shah was "daydreaming" about abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution that provides special status to the state.
An Air India plane from Mumbai to New Delhi with 140 passengers and six crew members had a close shave on Wednesday when it suffered a bird hit while landing at the Indore airport, sending jitters among those on board for the second consecutive day.
On his first visit to Gujarat as Bharatiya Janata Party president, Nitin Gadkari on Saturday drew parallels between Mahatma Gandhi and Narendra Modi, saying both believed that politics was an instrument to alleviate poverty.
Senior BJP leader L K Advani on Thursday seemed to echo the sentiments of Congress President Sonia Gandhi on the attitude of leaders when he said there was a need to change the image of "the ugly Indian politician".
Ten persons, including two Central Reserve Police Force personnel and four special police officers, were killed on Wednesday in a landmine blast triggered by Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district, police said.The incident took place at Sirguda village in Bastar region under Injram police station area, when Naxals blew up a tractor carrying the special police officers and jawans. The blast occurred when a joint patrol team was returning from their duty.
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The police party was on their way to Kanker district in Bastar region for a combing operation when they were attacked by the rebels, Bastar IG A N Upadhyaya said, adding that the injured security personnel were rushed to Raipur hospital by helicopter.
Global Kashmiri Pandit Diaspora, a body representing the community across the world, said the decision cements territorial, political and cultural unity of the Indian Union.
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Talking to partymen ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha polls and at a time when the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is struggling for allies in some important states like Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal among others, Advani exhorted party cadre to follow Jan Sangh leader Upadhyaya who was criticised for joining hands with the Communist to form alliance governments in states.
The Rail Budget is full of hollow promises, the Congress leader said.
Government counsel D K Upadhyaya, while arguing against Bachahan's petition, submitted that the actor had failed to disclose the source of his claim over the land. "It is a case of forgery in the revenue records," Upadhyaya told Justice A N Verma.
Saffron has virtually permeated everything -- from booklets and school bags to towels or chairs and even buses. And the Qaiser Bagh police station seems to be the latest on the list.
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'Certainly if Advani had agreed to Vajpayee in sacking Modi, then we would never have been talking of Modi today.'
Meanwhile, the Congress condemned the incident and accused the state BJP government of playing low level politics.
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Sadhu was brought to Mumbai on Wednesday morning by a team of Mumbai police which had gone to Varanasi and detained him.
The minister said the government is committed to preventing widespread coal thefts by use of CCTV cameras.
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The decision came a day after the Allahabad high court asked the Centre and the state government to file counter affidavits within a week on a petition challenging the decision to rename Allahabad as Prayagraj.
For now, the BJP's strategy for Khushbu seems to be one of denial -- denying the rival Congress in the state and also at the national-level a Muslim voice acceptable to Hindu audiences and TV news-watchers. This is much less than the induction of DMK veterans like Duraiswamy and Selvam, who still have a greater chances of winning assembly seats,, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Vaibhav Gehlot, son of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, was elected president of the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) as his panel swept all six posts in a tension-ridden election of the state body.
Nepal has said it would not allow anyone to use its soil to indulge in activities that cause material harm to India.
The BJP is protesting the removal of a statue of Jan Sangh leader Deen Dayal Upadhyaya and demolition of a square in Rampur town of Uttar Pradesh.
A video of the alleged attack that circulated on social media showed some people heckling the 79-year-old social activist.
The Delhi Police has asked commuters to avoid Rajpath and its connecting roads on Friday morning as nearly 30,000 people are expected to throng the Red Fort on the occasion of International Day of Yoga, traffic officials said.
Deputy Chief Minister Chhagan Bhujbal, Home Secretary U K Upadhyaya, Chief Secretary Ajit Nimbalkar, Director General of Police O P Bali and Commissioner R S Sharma are expected to attend the meeting.
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'If we can keep Kashmir cool for the next few years, then the possibility of a solution becomes stronger,' Pak \n\nanti-nuclear campaigner Pervez Hoodbhoy tells Pankaj Upadhyaya.
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