New Delhi: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Sunday hit out at Congress for doing "nothing for Dalits" in the country and "using" them as mere "vote bank". "Congress ruled the country for 54 years out of the 65 years since independence. This is not little time, but it made no effort to lift your status," Singh said while addressing a gathering on the occasion of BR Ambedkar's 122nd birth anniversary.
The BJP president said the Congress used Dalits as vote bank and came to power with their votes but took no steps to solve their problems. "I wanted to tell Dalit brothers that Congress always used you as a vote bank and never tried to take any steps to solve your problems," he said.
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03:58 AM, Apr 15, 2013
A statue of BR Ambedkar is costing the Namma Metro in Bangalore nearly Rs 100 crore. Plans are on to make an alternative design and a wider pathway will be constructed around the statue. This because the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation has been forced to stop work after Dalit organisations objected against the removal of the statue. While the statues of Subhash Chandra Bose and Jawaharlal Nehru have been moved,...
09:58 AM, Feb 12, 2013
On Dalit icon BR Ambedkar's 55th death anniversary on Thursday, lakhs of people are expected to converge at the Indu Mills in Mumbai to celebrate the Centre's move to install an Ambedkar memorial there. This land faces the sea and is right next to Chaitya Bhoomi, where Ambedkar's ashes have been interred. ...
10:07 AM, Dec 06, 2012
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley on Wednesday claimed that the disruption in the House is a tactic adopted by the UPA government and its allies in order to stay way from the FDI debate. Jaitley accused the government of diversionary tactics in the Rajya Sabha and said that the UPA constituents have been deliberately disrupting proceedings to avoid the vote. ...
01:10 PM, Dec 05, 2012
Arvind Kejriwal on Monday formally launched the Aam Aadmi Party amidst loud cheers from the people who had gathered at Jantar Mantar to participate in the inauguration ceremony. Introducing the party, Kejriwal said that it will seek to eradicate corruption at all levels in the country. ...
03:27 PM, Nov 26, 2012
Lucknow: Does Mahatma Gandhi belong to the Congress? In Uttar Pradesh, it would seem so as a Right to Information (RTI) poser has revealed that the state government "does not allocate any funds for celebrating the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi." In response to a query by RTI activist Gaurav Agarwal, the National Integration Department has said that though funds are available for other leaders like Bhimrao Ambedkar and Sardar...
03:45 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Bangalore: The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) has decided to continue the underground Metro station in front of Vidhana Soudha as the state government is delaying a decision on its request to remove a statue of B R Ambedkar from there. Dalit organisations have strongly opposed the removal of the statue and this has led the government to delay the decision on it. The cost of such a delay...
12:54 PM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The latest batch of the NCERT textbooks is out, but this time, without six cartoons from four political textbooks. This comes after the Thorat committee's recommendation that 22 cartoons be removed from the textbooks. The cartoon of Ambedkar that sparked off protests in Parliament has been replaced with his photograph. RK Laxman's cartoon depicting the anti-Hindi agitation and four other cartoons that represented political developments have also been...
01:59 PM, Sep 11, 2012
The grand finale of 'The Greatest Indian' was one of the most watched shows on the Independence Day. ...
09:44 AM, Aug 24, 2012
Father of the Indian Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar was voted as the 'Greatest Indian' in a poll spearheaded by History TV18 and CNN IBN. ...
11:44 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Mumbai: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said in Mumbai that Babasaheb Ambedkar is the Father of the Constitution and his government will ensure a befitting memorial for him. The Prime Minister told this to an all-party delegation led by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, who called on him at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai on Saturday morning to request him for expediting the handing over process of Indu Mill Land for...
12:52 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Search for the Greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi is over. BR Ambedkar, the Father of Indian Constitution, is the overwhelming choice. ...
11:56 PM, Aug 16, 2012
Search for the Greatest Indian after Mahatma Gandhi is over. BR Ambedkar, the Father of Indian Constitution, is the overwhelming choice. ...
11:22 AM, Aug 15, 2012
Watch the grand finale of The Greatest Indian on August 14. ...
08:30 AM, Aug 11, 2012
Madurai: Security has been stepped up in Madurai and parts of south Tamil Nadu following escalating tension sparked by the desecration of two statues of the Father of Indian Constitution B R Ambedkar and a statue of local Dalit hero Immanuel Sekaran in the temple town. Miscreants had vandalised the statue of Ambedkar placed near Madurai airport at Perungudi and statues of Immanuel Sekaran and Ambedkar statue at Chinna Udaippu...
12:24 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The controversy over cartoons in text books threatens to escalate. After a committee set up by the HRD Ministry recommended the removal of 43 cartoons, which included those of Indira Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, from the NCERT textbooks of classes 9-12, the chief of the national council has said that there is no logic behind axing them. The NCERT chief says that it is illogical to remove the...
07:33 AM, Jul 07, 2012
The committee noted that there are too many caricatures of former prime minister Indira Gandhi in NCERT text books, some of them politically sensitive. ...
11:39 PM, Jul 03, 2012
The HRD appointed committiee to look into all cartoons in the text books has submitted it's report to the NCERT. ...
11:18 PM, Jul 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Government-appointed committee looking into the controversy surrounding political caricatures in the school textbooks has submitted its recommendations. The NCERT panel said that cartoons with negative references to politicians and bureaucrats should be removed from the textbooks. It found that current textbooks carry too many cartoons of the Nehru-Gandhi family. It says these must be removed as well. It has recommended the removal or modification of 36 of...
08:13 AM, Jul 03, 2012
The grand old man of Indian cartooning, RK Laxman, has a delightful anecdote that embodies the charm of political cartooning. Soon after the 1962 Sino-Indian ...
12:22 AM, May 18, 2012
