After creating a furore with his India-Bharat remark on increasing rapes in the country, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat has once again kicked up a controversy by saying that women must restrict themselves to household work. In a speech in Indore, Bhagwat said that a husband and a wife are bound by a social contract where the wife has to take care of the household chores and the husband's...
08:22 AM, Jan 06, 2013
A BJP party leader has defended RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's remarks on rape, and said that western culture and bikini-clad women in advertisements have a role to play in crimes against women. BJP member Sheshadri Chari made the remarks during CNN-IBN's India @ 9 show. He was speaking to Rajdeep Sardesai and said that both women and men need to observe the 'Lakshman-rekha'. ...
08:34 AM, Jan 05, 2013
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. ...
11:56 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Madhya Pradesh Industry Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Kailash Vijaywargiya, who at a party function said that women who cross the Lakshman Rekha face rape, has now blamed the influence of western culture in the country for crimes against women. ...
09:40 PM, Jan 04, 2013
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said that rape incidents happen more in India, not Bharat. ...
08:01 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Dear Sir, You cannot be more 'right', pun vehemently intended. I am one of the many today outraged by your remarks that rapes happen ...
05:36 PM, Jan 04, 2013
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday defended the remarks by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat who had said that rape incidents occurred in cities and not in rural areas. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad lambasted critics and said that the comments should be seen in their entirety, adding that the raging debate on his remarks was unnecessary. "Women empowerment, respect for women forms the core ideology of the RSS," a furious...
02:22 PM, Jan 04, 2013
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat on Friday kicked up a controversy with his remark that rapes happened in cities and not in the rural areas. "Such crimes hardly take place in Bharat, but they frequently occur in India," Bhagwat said seeming to indicate that "westernization" in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rapes. ...
10:34 AM, Jan 04, 2013
There can be no basis to distinguish between rural and urban India when it comes to crimes against women, Union Home Secretary RK Singh said Friday following Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat's remark that "westernisation" in Indian cities was the reason behind increasing cases of rape. ...
01:05 AM, Jan 04, 2013
New Delhi: Refuting corruption charges against BJP President Nitin Gadkari, senior party leader LK Advani on Wednesday said that allegations against Gadkari are more to neutralise the unprecedented charges against the ruling UPA. Advani released a statement in which he said, "One of the allegations of wrong doing against Nitin ji relating to land issue has been proved wrong according to media reports themselves. Next, on certain media allegations questioning...
02:14 PM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Wednesday refused to comment on charges against BJP president Nitin Gadkari, calling it the BJP's internal matter. While Mohan Bhagwat hit out at the UPA government on the corruption front, he kept silent on Gadkari's dubious dealings. Is this an indication that the Sangh Parivar is reposing confidence in the BJP president despite allegations of wrongdoing against him? Interestingly, he also said that...
10:10 AM, Oct 24, 2012
Nagpur: BJP chief Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday shared the dais with RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur. Delivering his annual Vijay Dashmi day address on Wednesday morning, Bhagwat hit out at the government on the corruption front. He also said the RSS backed activists are fighting for a corruption free India. But Bhagwat kept silent on his own man Nitin Gadkari's dubious dealings, indicating that the Sangh is reposing confidence...
10:07 AM, Oct 24, 2012
New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday had a marathon three hour meeting with the RSS top brass, including its chief Mohan Bhagwat in Nagpur. The meeting came just before the Gujarat polls, with a section of the party seeking to settle the leadership issue within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Sources now say that RSS would approach the issue only after the Gujarat elections. Recently, BJP MP...
06:13 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Veteran BJP leader and Gujarat Parivartan Party chief Keshubhai Patel hit out at Narendra Modi. Patel said that since the elections are around the corner, Modi is meeting the RSS leaders. ...
03:59 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Nagpur: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met RSS top brass including its chief Mohan Bhagwat but brushed aside suggestions that the issue of projecting him as prime ministerial candidate for 2014 general elections was discussed. "RSS does not get involved in such things," Modi told reporters after the meeting at RSS headquarters here. He was replying to a query on the possibility of his being projected as the...
03:01 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday met RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat in the wake of BJP MP Ram Jethmalani suggesting that Modi should be projected as the party's Prime Ministerial candidate for the next General Elections. ...
02:25 PM, Oct 21, 2012
New Delhi: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) on Friday said the issue of Prime Ministerial candidate is the prerogative of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), steering clear of Rajya Sabha MP Ram Jethmalani's remarks that its chief Mohan Bhagwat had agreed with his view that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was the best choice for the post. "Meetings do take place. Whether the Sarsanghchalak was affirmative (with regard to Jethmalani's...
03:04 PM, Oct 19, 2012
New Delhi: The RSS added grist to the mill to the Nitish Kumar versus Narendra Modi debate when its chief Mohan Bhagwat reportedly rated Bihar's performance ahead of Gujarat. At an interaction with foreign correspondents in the national capital on Thursday, Bhagwat was asked which state governments are role models of good governance. "Bihar, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh to some extent, MP to some extent, some parts of Maharashtra," he responded, according...
08:48 PM, Aug 10, 2012
Bhagwat comes out in open support of Modi as a potential PM candidate, even as Nitish escalates his war within the NDA. ...
11:10 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Continuing his offensive against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday said former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wanted to sack him after the Gujarat riots. However, the RSS came out to Modi's defence and the Sangh chief called for a Prime Ministerial candidate committed to Hindutva. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat intervened in the battle for 2014 raging between two Chief...
09:42 PM, Jun 20, 2012
