India gets huge support on Kashmir among British MPs
Darpan News Desk IANS, 11 Sep, 2014 10:41 AM
India turned the tables on Pakistan at a debate by British MPs Thursday.
Not only did more than twice the number of speakers support the Indian position on the subject, as compared to the figure endorsing the Pakistani stance, but those speaking for Islamabad had nothing to offer other than staple Pakistani propaganda, whereas the former reeled off irrefutable facts and figures and persuasive arguments.
The Prime Minister's Office Sunday dismissed as "baseless and mischievous" claims by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's former media adviser Sanjaya Baru that its files were seen by Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Amit Kumar, 22, and Akash Kumar, 23, both residents of Bihar's Chhapra, were arrested after Hemang Haokip, 25, complained against them for the racist comment made midnight.
Appearing on India TV's show, Aap Ki Adalat, Modi, in an affable mood, said that he would not wear a skull cap in order to imitate other politicians in appeasing the Muslims and "hoodwinking" them. He said he rather believed in educating Muslims, that they should hold the Quran in one hand and a computer in the other.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi Saturday gave clear indication of his willingness to take the prime minister's post if the Congress wins the Lok Sabha elections and accused BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi of trying to centralise power
In a book that has sent ripples across the political establishment for its timing and content, Sanjaya Baru, media adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his first term, has said that Congress president Sonia Gandhi slowly chipped away at the authority of the Prime Minister's Office, created a parallel power structure and left a weakened prime minister who "allowed himself to become an object of such ridicule in his second term in office."
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments on rape Friday attracted widespread outrage with political parties, tinsel town celebrities and the father of the Dec 16, 2012 rape victim condemning it roundly.
