A photograph of nationalist leader Veer Savarkar was defaced at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) on Tuesday. The incident came to light this morning when students of M.A. first year reached their classroom and saw the photograph of Savarkar lying on the ground. The photo of Savarkar had ink splashed on his face.
"I personally don't subscribe to Savarkar's ideology but that doesn't take away the fact that he was an accomplished man who played a part in our freedom struggle, fight for Dalit rights and went to jail for the country."
The BJP, popularly known as the saffron party, had always been vocal about nationalist ideology and has praised the valour of freedom fighters and social reformers. The party has recently stirred a controversy after it proposed Veer Savarkar's name for Bharat Ratna.
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The complaint was filed by Ranjit Savarkar, grandson of the Hindutva ideologue, in Bhoiwada magistrate's court.
Reiterating his demand of Bharat Ratna posthumously for Veer Savarkar, Thackeray said while the contributions of both Gandhiji and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for the nation's development cannot be denied, the country's political landscape was not limited to only two families.
The Congress-affiliated National Students' Union of India (NSUI) had on Thursday said it blackened the bust of Savarkar while garlanding those of Bhagat Singh and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, installed by the ABVP-led Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) at the Delhi University.
Probably for the first time in India, a political party has been served legal notice over tweets posted on its official website.
Uddhav Thackeray has demanded that the Centre confer the Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian honour, on Veer Savarkar and thus ‘shut up the Congress permanently’ in the ongoing row over the revolutionary leader.
Hitting out at Rahul Gandhi over his "Gandhi is ours, Savarkar yours" remark, BJP chief Amit Shah today asked the BJP cadres to launch a nation-wide movement against Congress on the issue of nationalism.
New Delhi: Shiv Sena on Monday demanded that Veer Savarkar be given Bharat Ratna, contending that the icon of freedom struggle had been “deliberately neglected” by previous governments due to his staunch Hindutva views.In a
New Delhi: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, also known as ‘Veer Savarkar', was one of the bravest freedom fighters of India. He was a bold warrior, good orator, prolific writer, a poet, a historian, a philosopher and
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday paid tributes to freedom fighter Veer Savarkar on his 131st birth anniversary."Tributes to Veer Savarkar on his birth anniversary. We remember and salute his tireless efforts towards the
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday paid tributes to freedom fighter Veer Savarkar on his 131st birth anniversary."Tributes to Veer Savarkar on his birth anniversary. We remember and salute his tireless efforts towards the
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