‘Need to change this discourse’: Aaditya Thackeray castigates Devendra Fadnavis for ‘bangle’ comment

Fadnavis had targeted the Shiv Sena for their silence on AIMIM leader Waris Pathan’s controversial remark and said they were ‘wearing bangles’.

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· Feb 26, 2020 · 01:49 pm

AIMIM leader Waris Pathan withdraws ‘15 crore Muslims’ comment, claims his remark being twisted

Pathan had said at a rally last week, in the context of anti-CAA protests, that 15 crore Muslims will be able to overcome 100 crore Hindus if they united.

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· Feb 23, 2020 · 12:21 pm

‘Divorce cases are found more in educated, affluent families,’ claims RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

He added that education and wealth come with arrogance, which in turn destroyed families.

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· Feb 17, 2020 · 01:48 pm

‘Kejriwal sympathises with terrorists, questions Army,’ says newly elected BJP MLA Om Prakash Sharma

Sharma also called the AAP chief a corrupt man.

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· Feb 13, 2020 · 09:54 am

Aligarh: BJP MP says ‘go to Pakistan’ after activist Sumaiya Rana’s remarks at CAA protest

Rana had said that police measures against protestors were suffocating.

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· Feb 10, 2020 · 08:18 pm

‘Never said a word against Gandhi, Nehru,’ says BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde amid Opposition uproar in LS

Hegde accused the media of stirring up the ‘unnecessary’ controversy over his remarks and said that ‘all related reports are false’.

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· Feb 04, 2020 · 02:40 pm

BJP issues show-cause notice to Anantkumar Hegde for remarks about Mahatma Gandhi

At a public event in Bengaluru on Saturday, the MP ridiculed Gandhi’s hunger strikes and satyagraha, and claimed India’s freedom struggle was a ‘drama’.

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· Feb 03, 2020 · 08:51 pm

‘Are you with Godse or Gandhi?’ Congress asks PM after Anantkumar Hegde ridicules the Mahatma

The Opposition party demanded the former Union minister’s expulsion from the BJP, and a sedition case against him.

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· Feb 03, 2020 · 03:06 pm

Gandhi’s freedom struggle was ‘one big drama’ staged with British approval: BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde

The former Union minister claimed that the British did not leave India because of satyagraha and instead ‘gave independence’ out of frustration.

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· Feb 03, 2020 · 11:08 am

CAA: West Bengal BJP chief wonders why nobody has died in Shaheen Bagh protests

‘Women and children are sitting in temperatures as low as 4-5 degrees Celsius but nobody is dying,’ Dilip Ghosh said at an event at the Kolkata Press Club.

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· Jan 29, 2020 · 08:37 am

Periyar row: HC dismisses case against Rajinikanth, asks why petitioners didn’t go to lower court

The actor said that Periyar had, in 1971, undertaken an anti-superstition rally in Salem in which the images of an unclothed Ram and Sita were displayed.

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· Jan 24, 2020 · 01:54 pm

Remove BJP leader Kapil Mishra’s ‘India vs Pakistan’ tweet, EC tells Twitter

The Election Commission said Mishra’s tweets on the Delhi election were ‘highly objectionable’, but the BJP leader has stuck by his views.

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· Jan 24, 2020 · 01:40 pm