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Tamil Nadu: DMK’s Udhayanidhi Stalin reiterates call for ‘eradication’ of Sanatana Dharma
The Bharatiya Janata Party said that the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam leader had ‘once again spread venom’ against Sanatana Dharma.
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SC questions delay in prosecuting BJP leader for remarks on Army spokesperson Colonel Sofiya Qureshi
The bench noted that Vijay Shah, a Madhya Pradesh Cabinet minister, had only apologised after the court took cognisance of the matter.
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HC refuses to quash case against man who allegedly said Muslims intimidated in BJP-ruled states
The UP Muslim Personal Law Board chief had in 2023 allegedly said that gangster Atiq Ahmed was killed owing to ‘a conspiracy’ by the Adityanath government.
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Five rejoinders: What Ramachandra Guha gets wrong about Rahul Gandhi
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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey issues unconditional apology after row over comments about Biju Patnaik
Dubey alleged that Patnaik, who was Odisha’s CM during the 1962 China war, acted as a link between the US, CIA and then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
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Complaint filed against Maharashtra minister Nitish Rane for alleged hate speech at Ram Navami event
Videos on social media showed the BJP leader saying that anyone who looked at the saffron flag with ill intent would have their eyes gouged out.
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UP: AIMIM leader booked for making allegedly provocative speech at Eid event in Meerut
Three of the party’s office-bearers have also been arrested for organising the gathering without permission.
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Rajasthan BJP MLA says party ‘gave birth to boy child’ in first Budget, sparks row
Bahadur Singh Koli said that the Congress was in the Opposition because in its last Budget, a ‘girl child was born’.
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‘Language gives them away’: RSS chief says citizens could ‘detect and report’ foreigners
Mohan Bhagwat also said that detection and deportation of suspected foreigners has ‘started little by little, and it will gradually increase’.
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‘Excitement of patriotism’: BJP minister apologises again for remarks about Colonel Sofiya Qureshi
This came two days before the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the matter relating to his prosecution for the comments.
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In the past two weeks, Himanta Sarma has made several comments about the state’s Bengali Muslims, saying that it was his job to ‘make them suffer’.
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Himanta Sarma’s remarks about ‘Miyas’ prejudicial and ‘alarmingly hateful’, say activists, lawyers
The Bharatiya Janata Party government was ‘putting together a policy programme that now bears the hallmark signatures of ethnic cleansing’, the group said.
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BJP workers filed over 5 lakh complaints against voters in draft list, says Himanta Sarma
Registering complaints during the special revision of the electoral rolls in the state is a ‘national duty’, the chief minister said.
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