Kamal Haasan says Nathuram Godse was independent India’s first terrorist, and he was a Hindu

Tamil Nadu BJP chief Tamilisai Soundararajan attacked Haasan, claiming that the politician ‘is lighting a dangerous fire to gain votes by minority appeasement’.

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· May 13, 2019 · 11:14 am

BJP ally Akali Dal asks president to act against Meghalaya governor for Kashmiri boycott comment

Tathagata Roy had called for the boycott of ‘everything Kashmiri’ after a suicide bombing in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir.

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· Feb 22, 2019 · 11:28 am

Kamal Haasan calls for plebiscite in Kashmir, later claims his words were taken out of context

The actor and politician also referred to Pakistan-occupied Kashmir as ‘Azad Kashmir’ while speaking at an event in Chennai.

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· Feb 18, 2019 · 12:01 pm

Mehbooba Mufti criticises Karnataka Speaker for ‘rape victim’ remark, calls it a ‘sick analogy’

The former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister said it was even more disturbing that legislators had laughed in response to KR Ramesh’s Kumar’s comment.

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· Feb 13, 2019 · 07:25 pm

Liam Neeson row: Backlash mounts over actor’s admission of wanting to kill a black man as revenge

The actor had made the remark in an interview in the context of what he felt after he heard of a close friend’s rape.

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· Feb 06, 2019 · 01:12 pm

Union minister Anantkumar Hegde now calls Rahul Gandhi a ‘hybrid specimen’

The BJP leader had earlier called the Karnataka Congress chief ‘a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady’.

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· Jan 31, 2019 · 08:40 am

‘Lanka will be conquered’: Rahul Gandhi is Ravana and Priyanka Gandhi is Surpanakha, says BJP leader

Bairia legislator Surendra Narayan Singh hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the deity Ram.

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· Jan 30, 2019 · 05:10 pm

Kumbh: Shashi Tharoor’s tweet about Adityanath’s holy dip ‘a religious slur’, says Smriti Irani

Uttar Pradesh minister Sidharth Nath Singh said the Congress MP did not understand the Kumbh’s importance for Hindus.

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· Jan 30, 2019 · 04:35 pm

Uttar Pradesh BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey makes derogatory remarks about Mayawati

The Chandauli MP invoked an incident from 1995 where Mayawati was allegedly locked inside a guest house in Lucknow by SP workers and assaulted.

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· Jan 29, 2019 · 04:41 pm

Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan are traitors, claims RSS leader Indresh Kumar

Kumar also alleged that the Congress and Left parties, ‘communal forces’, and a few judges were responsible for the delay in the Ayodhya hearing.

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· Jan 29, 2019 · 12:06 pm

Nitin Gadkari’s ‘tall promises’ comment was aimed at Congress and Rahul Gandhi, clarifies BJP

Party spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said the minister’s remarks were being twisted and misused for political benefit.

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· Jan 28, 2019 · 01:43 pm

Union minister Anantkumar Hegde drags Karnataka Congress leader’s Muslim wife into Twitter spat

Hegde retaliated after Karnataka Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao criticised the BJP leader’s controversial statement about the harassment of Hindu women.

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· Jan 28, 2019 · 12:28 pm