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Center-Left Owned by Kasturi & Sons Ltd.Shivji Ki Baarat to Haldighati at Ramlila Maidan: Rahul, Akhilesh take BJP on its pitch of political messaging dressed in cultural motifs
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The wedding of DMK general secretary Durai Murugan’s granddaughter featured chanting of Vedic mantras in Sanskrit, which critics say contradicts the party’s core rationalist ideology. This has sparked a political controversy in Tamil Nadu, with Dravidar Kazhagam accusing the party of “double‑standards.”
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Invoking the ancient name of Varanasi, the abode of Shiva and the parliamentary constituency of PM Modi, Akhilesh Yadav mocked the BJP’s double-engine government campaign slogan, saying he was incredibly pleased that “the people of Kashi have handed them a double zero” in the recently concluded MLC…
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Congress is deep in full-blown denial mode — frantically trying to scrub the Indian Union Muslim League, the communal force it relies on, off its national stage. This is no first-time experiment. They already pulled the same stunt in April 2024, general elections, when after the 2019 green-flag…
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Invoking the ancient name of Varanasi, the abode of Shiva and the parliamentary constituency of PM Modi, Akhilesh Yadav mocked the BJP’s double-engine government campaign slogan, saying he was incredibly pleased that “the people of Kashi have handed them a double zero” in the recently concluded MLC…
