A BJP MLA in Rajasthan has said that “if one engages in cow smuggling or slaughters a cow, he will be killed.” Ramgarh MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja made the statement while speaking on the arrest of an alleged cow smuggler in Alwar district on Saturday. The man, identified as Zakir, was also allegedly beaten up […]
The Uttar Prdaesh police on Thursday booked a newly-elected municipal corporator in Aligarh Musharraf Husain for “malicious intent of outraging religious sentiment” after he took oath in Urdu on Monday. Husain was beaten and assaulted allegedly by BJP councilors after he took oath in Urdu. A complaint against Husain, a corporator from the BSP, was […]
July 2008. I was on a cycling expedition, from the southernmost tip of India to its most northern state. Along the way, I took a pit stop at Nagpur, the geographic center of India and the epicenter of Hindu nationalism. There, I saw a building with a bizarre name: “Hitlers Den”. A pool parlor, its […]
Former Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka K S Eshwarappa advised BJP party workers never to hesitate in lying to the voters in order to win political support in the state that is currently run by the Congress. In a video that has now gone viral, Eshwarappa is seen asking the party workers to tell people […]
A local BJP leader and four of his supporters were arrested for vandalizing a Christian player hall on Saturday in Tamil Nadu’s Coimabatore. A case has also been registered against pastor Vinod Kumar,reported NDTV “BJP workers threw chairs asking the group to stop the programme when they were distributing help to local people,” the report said citing a police officer. According […]
BENGALURU: Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde has landed in another controversy after actor Prakash Raj tweeted a video of a hate speech he reportedly made almost two years ago. The video, reportedly from March, 2016, shows Mr Hegde saying, “As long as there is Islam in the world, there will be terrorism. Until we uproot Islam, […]
To neutralise hostility against it, the BJP machinery has pushed aside its slogan of vikas andis focussing on polarisation tactics. But will this be enough? Ahmedabad: What sets the upcoming Gujarat assembly polls apart from those we have seen since May 2014 is that, barring Goa, it is the only election where the Bharatiya Janata Party is fighting to […]
THREE DAYS after he murdered migrant labourer Mohammed Afrazul and circulated videos of the killing, Shambhulal Regar, 36, is being hailed in messages doing the rounds of some WhatsApp groups here, including one in which BJP MP from Rajsamand Hariom Singh Rathore and MLA Kiran Maheshwari are members. The WhatsApp group, ‘Swachh Rajsamand, Swachh Bharat’, […]
Speaking at the opening ceremony of International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK) on Friday, actor Prakash Raj said efforts are being made by a few people to stifle his voice and discourage the next generation of artists from thinking freely. The 52-year-old actor, who was the chief guest at IFFK’s 22nd edition, appealed to artists […]
BJP on Thursday claimed that Delhi’s Jama Masjid was originally Jamuna Devi temple. Speaking to ANI, BJP leader Vinay Katiyar said, “There were about 6,000 places that were broken down by the Mughal emperors. Delhi’s Jama Masjid was originally Jamuna Devi temple, similarly Taj Mahal was Tejo Mahalaya.” “Our religious places were targeted by Muslims […]
