In a setback to 53-year-old Gandhi, the high court on July 7 dismissed Gandhi's plea for a stay on his conviction, observing that "purity in politics" is the need of the hour.
"It was Veer Savarkar who first mooted the idea of a two-nation theory which was later adopted by Muhammad Ali Jinnah," Singh told reporters.
'But he was very quick and did a very stylish adab.' 'Of course, I didn't expect him to hug.'
The teary-eyed Congress worker said he committed a "grave error" and appealed to the party workers and leaders to accept his apology.
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
A source at Medanta hospital in Gurgaon said Patra was 'admitted in the morning and is stable'.
They want 'tainted' ministers dropped, Veer Savarkar's plaque restored at Cellular Jail and Karnataka government to drop the case against Uma Bharti.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party is committed to bring Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the country but only after following all democratic processes and discussions on it.
The party, however, acknowledged that Savarkar had made a contribution to the freedom movement.
'There is a conscious move by the BJP to distance itself from the current state leadership.'
BJP veterans whom K Annamalai has reportedly sidelined are upset over his 'immature' way of handling allies, reveals N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Shiv Sena, alliance partner of the Congress in Maharashtra, reacted sharply to Rahul Gandhi's jibe `my name is not Rahul Savarkar' on Saturday, saying there could not be any "compromise" on the Hindutva ideologue.
The busts of the trio were installed on August 20 by outgoing DUSU president Shakti Singh without taking permission from the varsity authorities. They were removed on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday.
The court of Justice Hemant Prachchhak, however, said no interim protection can be granted at this stage.
'The NCP fires the gun from Raut's shoulders and who does the bullet hit? Not enemies of our party but loyalists like us. This is not acceptable to us'
The Sangh chief said, "Even Veer Savarkar had said if the Hindu community gets united and organised, it will speak about the Bhagwad Gita and not about finishing or harming anyone."
Savarkar believed Swarajya is more than the mere geographical independence of a stretch of earth called India. There was no point in fighting and sacrificing one's life for a Swarajya (mere territorial independence) at the cost of our Svatva (self-existence) or Hindutva itself! A revealing excerpt from Uday Mahurkar and Chirayu Pandit's Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition.
The implementation of the NEP and four-year undergraduate programme were approved by the Standing Committee on Academic Matters and the Academic Council last week.
Maharashtra reported seven new cases of the Omicron variant of coronavirus on Friday including a three-and-half-year-old girl which took the tally of such infections to 17, the state health department said.
According to BMC, debris removal operations are still on at the collapse site of 'Altaf'
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'When I felt that the party is drifting away from Hindutva, I tried to speak to Uddhavji. But nobody was ready to listen.'
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
Kejriwal's centralised way of governance might work in Delhi, but Punjab will call for delegation, observes Sanjeev Nayyar.
Shiv Sena Supremo Bal Thackeray's funeral procession from Matoshree has begun. If you are in Mumbai, avoid these roads today
Naming the Bandra-Worli sea link after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has spawned a political controversy, with Opposition Sena-BJP demanding that it be named after Veer Savarkar and CPI rooting for it to be named after legendary Maratha admiral Kanhoji Angre.
Likening India's progress to that of a vehicle that only has accelerator and no brakes, the RSS chief said those trying to stop it will either step aside or be eliminated.
There is no record of Hridaynath Mangeshkar being sacked by the AIR, Raut said.
Himani Savarkar, President of right-wing group Abhinav Bharat and a kin of freedom fighter Veer Savarkar, was aware of the conspiracy hatched to carry out "activities" in Muslim-dominated Malegaon to avenge "atrocities" against Hindus but she kept mum, police sources said. She has admitted this in a statement given to Pune unit of Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad, which probed the September 29 blast in the communally-sensitive power loom town, the sources said.
Uddhav Thackeray and his followers have the option to stop riding a tiger and commence work around a more meaningful and enduring political ideology. It is an option Eknath Shinde's side may not have, supported as they were by the BJP, to maintain continuity of the old Sena, argues Shyam G Menon.
"We have always rejected Savarkar's ideology and political philosophy....his was a divisive ideology. We are consistent and firm in its rejection. We don't need to revise our opinion," Congress spokesman Anand Sharma said.
A sessions court has acquitted four persons, including a Shiv Sena member, in an attack case on the India Today office in South Mumbai two years ago.
Anita Aikara/Rediff.com shares pics from her travel to the Andaman Islands.
The Upper House did not transact any business and was adjourned for the day.
Admiral Vishu Bhagwat is believed to have made some derogatory remarks about V D Savarkar.
The entire opposition, including the BJPs ally the Bahujan Samaj Party, boycotted the function saying that they did not want to 'give credibility' to the activities and 'divisive policies' of Savarkar.
Party president Venkaiah Naidu alleged the SCERT textbooks in Kerala have deliberately omitted mention of the state in the national anthem for last two years.
Whatever Mani Shanker Aiyar has said, 'we don't agree with it as he has said it in his individual capacity', Ghulam Nabi Azad said.
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