UP manifesto: BJP's freebies vs Cong's job promises

UP manifesto: BJP's freebies vs Cong's job promises Lucknow: Twelve days to go for the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh and it is pouring sops. The BJP and the Congress released their manifesto on Friday. While the BJP rode the Hindutva plank, the Congress focussed on reservations and unemployment. The Congress wants to increase the sub quota for backward Muslims to 9 per cent while the BJP threatens to do away with the 4.5 per cent...
07:29 AM, Jan 28, 2012

Quota in quota will bolster Hidutva forces: JD(U)

Quota in quota will bolster Hidutva forces: JD(U) Patna: Congress' decision of carving out a sub-quota for minorities withing the OBCs' 27 per cent quota will "bolster" Hindutva forces and break the social cohesion between OBCs and minorities, the JD(U) claimed on Friday. National spokesman of JD(U), a key NDA ally, Shivanand Tiwari on Friday termed the Congress' proposed move as "unfortunate". He was reacting to the Centre's decision to carve out a sub-quota of 4.5 per cent...
02:52 PM, Dec 23, 2011

UP Yatra: BJP set to revive Hindutva, temple issue

UP Yatra: BJP set to revive Hindutva, temple issue New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, BJP is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate of UP, BJP had...
02:36 AM, Nov 09, 2011

BJP set to revive Hindutva, Ram temple in UP

BJP set to revive Hindutva, Ram temple in UP New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate...
07:06 PM, Nov 08, 2011

UP: BJP to revive Hindutva agenda through yatra

UP: BJP to revive Hindutva agenda through yatra New Delhi: Not getting the kind of public support it had expected on issues like corruption and law and order, the BJP is all set to revive the Hindutva and Ram temple agenda in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh with the party planning to wrap up its Jan Swabhiman Yatra at Ayodhya on November 17. In a bid to enthuse the party cadre and reach out to the electorate of UP, the...
07:01 PM, Nov 08, 2011

I do not go to temples, says Nitin Gadkari

I do not go to temples, says Nitin Gadkari Panaji: BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Friday said though he believes in Hindutva, he does not go to temples, or even perform a puja. "I don't go the temples. I don't perform puja," Gadkari said during an interaction at 'Goa Think Fest 2011'. The BJP president, however, defended his party's politics of Hindutva. "Hinduism is a way of life. It is not about a religion," he said, adding, "Political Hindutva...
08:48 AM, Nov 05, 2011

Norway attacker's remote Varanasi connection

Norway attacker's remote Varanasi connection Varanasi: Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, whose bombing and shooting spree in Oslo left atleast 76 people dead, has a remote Indian connection. The combat badges of the 32-year-old's militant outfit were supplied by a weaver in Varanasi. Breivik, a self-proclaimed anti-Muslim fundamentalist, placed an order for preparing an embroidered insignia for his militant outfit 'Justiciar Knight' through the internet with a weaver in the narrow bylanes of Pathani...
11:31 AM, Jul 27, 2011

Norwegian killer's manifesto supports Hindutva

Norwegian killer's manifesto supports Hindutva New Delhi: Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed killer of 76 people in the July 22 bomb and gun attacks in Norway, has praised the Hindutva movement and warned that "India will continue to wither and die unless the Indian nationalists consolidate properly and strike to win." The 32-year-old Breivik devotes a significant portion of his rambling 1,500-page manifesto posted online shortly before the massacre to the rise of the Indian...
02:48 PM, Jul 26, 2011

Digvijaya stepney to Rahul Gandhi: Uma Bharti

Digvijaya stepney to Rahul Gandhi: Uma Bharti Lucknow: BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said though the party has faith in Hindutva and the Ram temple issue, they would not be its political agenda for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled for early next year. "I have faith in Hindutva and Ram. We want Ram Rajya here. The issue of Ram temple is of faith but it's not the party's political agenda for the state. We will...
01:07 PM, Jun 22, 2011

Jaitley must apologise to the nation: Sibal

Jaitley must apologise to the nation: Sibal New Delhi: A day after WikiLeaks exposed Arun Jaitley's comments on hindutva, Telecom minister Kapil Sibal has slammed the BJP for using it as an opportunistic issue. Sibal capitalised on the WikiLeaks revelations on BJP leader Arun Jaitley to target the main opposition party. He said the leaked US cables have exposed the BJP's opportunistic stand on hindutva. He said, "Jaitley's statement smacks of double speak. Jaitley should apologise to...
12:54 PM, Mar 27, 2011

Court rejects CBI plea to conduct narco tests

Court rejects CBI plea to conduct narco tests Two accused in the 2007 Mecca Masjid bomb blast in Hyderabad refused to undergo narco tests. ...
06:23 PM, Jul 14, 2010
Let us build Ram temple: BJP chief to Muslims

Let us build Ram temple: BJP chief to Muslims

Indore: It was an action packed day one of the BJP's national council and BJP president Nitin Gadkari said it all from attacking dynasty politics of the congress to cracking the whip on indiscipline along with the party's emphasis on its core issue: Building of Ram mandir at Ayodhya. After two successive Lok Sabha defeats, Nitin Gadkari is now working on a two pronged approach to boost the BJP's morale, ...
10:38 PM, Feb 18, 2010

BJP's appeal is not religion: Gadkari

BJP's appeal is not religion: Gadkari BJP president tells CNN-IBN development comes ahead of Hindutva. ...
09:15 AM, Jan 24, 2010
BJP let down the Hindutva cause, says Sadhvi

BJP let down the Hindutva cause, says Sadhvi

On the 17th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition, a special report. ...
01:20 AM, Dec 07, 2009

No battle within the BJP, says Rajnath Singh

No battle within the BJP, says Rajnath Singh The BJP President finally broke his silence over the crisis in the party. ...
02:31 AM, Sep 01, 2009
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