appears that the vigilante attack on six students, including two girls, of Swamy Vivekananda Pre-University College at Vamanjoor on the outskirts of the city on Sunday, allegedly by some fringe Hindutva groups, was planned.A Vishwa Hindu Parishad spokesperson has admitted that Hindutva activists had “questioned” the girls for travelling with Muslim boys.Rasheed, one of the students who was attacked...
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Asserting that India was blooming and marching forward as a leading country in the world, former Ambassador to the United States Abid Hussain said that there was a spirit of oneness that was driving the country. This was the essential feature of India, a country of many cultures, ideas and religions.Delivering the Dr. Maddi Gopalakrishna Reddy Memorial Lecture on ‘Being Indian’ at the Platinum Jubilee...
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leak of the Liberhan Commission report on Babri Masjid demolition today appeared to have come as a grist to the mill for BJP which is yet to recover from its election defeat and the consequent internal crisis.The reported indictment of LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi was not entirely unexpected but what came as a "surprise and shock" is the apparent reference to party patriarch and former prime minister...
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RSS is neither a political outfit nor a para-military force, but is an organisation engaged in unifying society on the basis of Hindutva, its chief Mohan Bhagwat said today."Though, we have our flag and some people from the RSS have joined political organisations, the Sangh has nothing to do with politics," he said at a function here."The RSS is neither a political outfit nor a para-military force....
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The Kerala Muslim Youth Federation has registered a strong protest against what it saw as a communal agenda to isolate and ostracise Muslim students by unleashing calumny against them under the label of the so-called “Love Jihad.”The federation registered its protest at a seminar on “Love, conversion and communalism” here on Sunday.Inaugurating the seminar, Thodiyur Mohammed Kunju Moulavi, secretary...
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Over 100 artistes and academicians belonging to Muslim community launched a scathing attack on Wednesday, on Jamiat-Ulema-e Hind resolution on 'Vande Mataram' saying the move would only "unnecessarily provoke" a controversy and strengthen Hindutva forces."We don't believe Vande Mataram is a test case of some one's patriotism. We strongly condemn the Jamiat move to unnecessarily provoke a controversy...
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the RSS could rename the BJP, what would it be? Bharatiya Hindutva Party? Hindutva Dal? No. Bharatiya Trinamul Party, perhaps.As the Sangh grapples with what seems like a long-drawn revamp job of its political progeny, a source privy to the exercise said the Sangh would “ideally want to use elements of the Trinamul Congress’s approach and strategy”.“Our understanding is Mamata Banerjee’s entire focus...
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Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today asked the saffron alliance, particularly the BJP, to strengthen the Hindutva ideology.''BJP should fortify Hindutva ideology. Shiv Sena will always support it,'' the Sena supremo said in an editorial in the party mouthpiece ''Saamna''.Mr Thackeray, whose party is BJP's oldest ally, said, ''It was his father, late Prabodhankar Thackeray, who first mooted the idea...
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Bhartiya Janshakti Party president Uma Bharati on Tuesday said she was happy that former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh was reverting to the agenda of Hindutva and Ram temple."I am happy that Kalyan Singh has accepted his mistake and is going back to the agenda of Ram temple and Hindutva, riding on which he became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1993," Bharati told reporters here."If...
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lang="EN"> Mumbai, Nov. 20: The Ram temple at Ayodhya is a symbol of the Sena’s sacrifice for Hindutva and the party would fulfil the promise of constructing it fully, Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said.
"The Ram temple is a symbol of Sena’s sacrifice for Hindutva," an editorial in party mouthpiece Saamna said on Thursday. Mr Thackeray is the newspaper’s...
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