Begin typing your search above and press return to search.
proflie-avatar
Login
exit_to_app
Democracy that banks on the electorate
access_time 28 March 2024 5:34 AM GMT
Lessons to learn from Moscow terror attack
access_time 27 March 2024 6:10 AM GMT
Gaza
access_time 26 March 2024 4:34 AM GMT
The poison is not in words, but inside
access_time 25 March 2024 5:42 AM GMT
A witchhunt, plain and simple
access_time 23 March 2024 9:35 AM GMT
DEEP READ
Schools breeding hatred
access_time 14 Sep 2023 10:37 AM GMT
Ukraine
access_time 16 Aug 2023 5:46 AM GMT
Ramadan: Its essence and lessons
access_time 13 March 2024 9:24 AM GMT
When ‘Jai Sree Ram’ becomes a death call
access_time 15 Feb 2024 9:54 AM GMT
exit_to_app
Homechevron_rightIndiachevron_rightManmohan Singh tones...

Manmohan Singh tones down Cong line on Savarkar, Article 370

text_fields
bookmark_border
cancel
camera_alt""

New Delhi: In a damage control effort amid the scathing attack launched by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former prime minister Manmohan Singh has toned down the Congress line on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Article 370.

Hours after his party colleagues questioned the BJP's demand for a Bharat Ratna to party ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Manmohan Singh at a press conference in Mumbai on Thursday tried to play down the statements and said that the Congress was not against Savarkar, but opposed the Hindutva ideology that he propagated. He revealed that former prime minister Indira Gandhi had even issued a postal stamp commemorating Savarkar.

On Thursday, Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari has slammed the BJP tweeting: "Why does NDA/BJP government want to confer Bharat Ratna on Savarkar, why not Godse? Former was only chargesheeted & later acquitted for assassination of Gandhi, while latter was convicted & hanged. On his 150th anniversary, if you want to defile his memory, then go the whole nine yards?"

Manmohan Singh also said the Congress was not opposed to the abrogation of Article 370, as it was a temporary provision, but had reservations with the way it was scrapped.

Manmohan Singh's statements have come at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah are attacking Congress for the various statements made by its leaders on Article 370 and Savarkar.

Show Full Article
News Summary - Manmohan Singh tones down Cong line on Savarkar, Article 370
Next Story