Visakhapatnam: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday said his party would bring an anti-conversion law if it comes to power at the Centre. Addressing a gathering in Visakhapatnam, he said BJP is totally opposed to conversions and the country would only be safe when Hindus are in a majority.
Claiming that BJP is the only national party in the country to protect the welfare of all sections of people, he charged the UPA government at the Centre and the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh had totally neglected the welfare of the poor and downtrodden.
Naidu alleged people had lost faith in Congress governments as BJP-ruled states like Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh and others did well, with all people including minorities, in these states leading a comfortable life.
He said BJP would take stern action against terrorism and cancel the autonomous status to Jammu and Kashmir if it came to power after the next general elections. He said people wanted BJP rule at the Centre as they experienced development during NDA rule headed by Atal Behari Vajpayee....
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Press Council Chairman Markandey Katju on Monday clarified that his remark '90 per cent of Indians are fools' was meant to awaken people to the realities of social evils like casteism, communalism in the country. "I have been misquoted in the press reports, but it is true that I have said that 90 per cent Indians (not all) are fools. My intention in saying so was not to hurt anyone...
10:54 PM, Dec 10, 2012
Ninety per cent of Indians are "idiots" who can easily be misled by mischievous elements in the name of religion, Press Council of India (PCI) chairperson Justice Markandey Katju claimed on Saturday. "I say ninety percent of Indians are idiots. You people don't have brains in your heads....It is so easy to take you for a ride," he said at a seminar here. ...
10:59 PM, Dec 08, 2012
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12:39 PM, Dec 06, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav expressed his opposition to foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail and hike in diesel prices but was still willing to support the government, BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain noted on Sunday. Referring to Mulayam Yadav's son, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's remarks that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had much explaining to do on matters concerning the economy, Hussain said that the Samajwadi...
12:20 AM, Sep 24, 2012
Mysore: The tussle for the chief ministership between the warring BJP factions spilled on to the streets, literally, with people burning effigies of former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and MLA B Harish near Maddur on the Bangalore-Mysore highway. Activists of the Vokkaliga Sangha, Vishwa Vokkaligara Sangha and Kannada organisations and other outfits staged protests expressing outrage to attempts to unseat CM D V Sadananda Gowda. They disrupted traffic on...
10:43 AM, Jul 02, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Blamed for yielding to the IUMLs pressure tactics and hence upsetting the communal equation, the Congress is gearing up for an image makeover by maintaining a communal balance while revamping its various block, district and state committees. The leadership, that has been under criticism from the majority communities over the allotment of the fifth ministerial berth, is for giving due recognition to the latter in its various committees. Moreover,...
12:25 PM, Jun 25, 2012
Patna: Press Council of India chairman Justice Markandey Katju said on Friday that the Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government harassed the media if they wrote against it. Katju said the information he had gathered about the media in Bihar was "not good". He reminded the Nitish Kumar government that its alleged action against the press was a violation of the Constitution. A three-member PCI team will be sent to Bihar soon...
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12:47 PM, Jul 19, 2011
New Delhi: Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh on Thursday said communalism and fundamentalism, which is linked to terrorism, are equal threats to internal security. "I think, if not more dangerous, it (communalism) is as dangerous as left wing extremism," said Singh, while participating in a discussion on Naxalism at India Habitat Centre, in New Delhi on Thursday. The discussion was held as part of the formal book release of Rahul...
10:30 PM, Jul 14, 2011
New Delhi: Think action and fantasy is all that is there to a comic book? Think again. A comic book dealing with the sensitive issue of communalism in India was launched here on Wednesday. 'Communalism Explained! A Graphic Account' has been written by Ram Puniyani, while Sharad Sharma, founder world comics India, has done the illustrations. The book is published in Hindi and English in association with Oxfam India, an...
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