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Need to understand 'real motive' behind Bapu's murder: Gandhi's ki
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Kochi (Kerala) [India], Oct 25 (ANI): Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, on Friday stressed on the need to understand the "real motive" behind the latter's murder even as BJP pushes to confer Bharat Ratna on Hindu ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar who was accused of killing Ba
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'Ayushman Bharat' a good scheme but not implemented properly: Khur
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 21 (ANI): Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid on Friday praised Central government's Ayushman Bharat scheme and said that it should get everyone's support.
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Culture Minister slams Congress leaders for criticising proposal t
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New Delhi (India) October 19 (ANI): Union Minister Prahlad Patel on Saturday slammed leaders of Congress and some other opposition parties for being critical of proposal in BJP's Maharashtra manifesto confer Bharat Ratna to Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and said controversy
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Siddaramaiah should apologise to nation for his comments on Savark
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Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Friday said Congress leader Siddaramaiah should apologise to the nation for his comments on Veer Savarkar comparing him with Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse.
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Siddaramaiah slams BJP for propping up Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ra
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Mangaluru (Karnataka) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Congress leader and former Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday slammed the BJP for its move to prop up Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar for the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award.
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If you want to give Bharat Ratna, then give it to Sukhdev, Rajguru
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Aurangabad (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Commenting on the recent controversy over whether Veer Savarkar should be awarded Bharat Ratna, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) President Asaduddin Owaisi on Friday stated that the honour should be instead bestowed upon the likes
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Manmohan Singh's statement on Savarkar was misunderstood: Surjewal
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Kaithal (Haryana) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): The Congress is seemingly on the backfoot after the Bharatiya Janata Party's proposed idea to back Hindutva ideologue Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna.
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'Indira Gandhi was Savarkar's follower, you won't find a more secu
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): Indira Gandhi was a follower of Veer Savarkar, said his grand-nephew, Ranjeet, who stated that everything that the former prime minister did was "against Nehru and Gandhi's philosophy".
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Veer Savarkar: Did Gandhi visit cellular jail or any Congressman g
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Kaithal (Haryana) [India], Oct 18 (ANI): The controversy over whether Veer Savarkar should be accorded with Bharat Ratna has found resonance in Haryana. While the issue has been an emotive one in Maharashtra, owing to Savarkar's connection with the state, BJP and Shiv Sena have been aggre
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Had it not been for Savarkar, 1857 rebellion wouldn't have become
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Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Amidst BJP proposing up the names of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar for Bharat Ratna in its manifesto for the Maharashtra state assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday credited Savarkar for coining the 1857 rebellion as the Firs
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BJP shouldn't forget Savarkar was named in Mahatama Gandhi's murde
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Indore (Madhya Pradesh) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Hitting out at the BJP for proposing Veer Savarkar's name for the Bharat Ratna, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh said that the Centre shall not forget that Savarkar's name was registered in a conspiracy behind Mahatma Gandhi's murder.
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NDA govt should straightaway confer Bharat Ratna to Godse instead
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Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Oct 17 (ANI): Congress leader Manish Tiwari on Wednesday took potshots at the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for propping up the name of Veer Savarkar for Bharat Ratna in the party's manifesto for the upcoming Maharashtra elections and said that the party sh
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