West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said those living in the state will have to learn to speak Bengali, and that non-Bengalis will have to face consequences if they continue to target Bengali-speaking people.
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The Congress general secretary in charge of western Uttar Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, said that senior party leaders are focusing on strengthening the grand old party after the humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha election in the state.
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E Sreedharan, who is also known as the “Metro Man” of India for his planning and execution of the Delhi Metro network, has requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to allow Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal’s proposal to give free Delhi Metro passes for women.
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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed Congress workers and said since she had been “asked to speak”, she would not mince words about party men not doing enough to ensure victory.
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The 12 Congress MLAs, who recently joined TRS hit out opposition party’s state leadership for its attack on them. They said their action was in accordance with the Constitutional provisions.
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Indian cricketing legend Sachin Tendulkar thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a tweet for “promoting” cricket during the latter’s recent visit to the Maldives.
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Patidar leader Hardik Patel made a bizarre statement claiming that China was behind the missing IAF An-32 aircraft along with its crew. He not only said this, but also urged PM Narendra Modi to launch a “surgical strike” against China to bring back the plane and the airmen.
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Varun Gandhi, the newly elected BJP MP from Pilibhit, while visiting to his constituency, said he thinks the votes he has got from minority community members as a “blessing”, but insisted that not many from the community cast their ballot in his favour.
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Samajwadi Party senior leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan said madrasas don’t produce people like Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse or 2008 Malegaon blasts accused Pragya Singh Thakur.
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Former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian suggested that India’s growth was overstated by about to 2.5 per cent. Referring to his research paper, he said the average annual growth between 2011-12 and 2016-17 may have been about 4.5 per cent, not 7 per cent.
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Congress president Rahul Gandhi while speaking against the arrest of three journalists for allegedly “defaming” Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, said the CM was “behaving foolishly”.
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Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar, while taking a dig at the BJP over Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur, said giving ticket to a person accused of triggering bomb blasts is an attack on democracy.
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Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, on Monday, said that Janata Dal (United) will never compromise on its principles and claimed that there was no ill will with BJP over his party not joining the government at the Centre.
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Former Indian Army officer and Kargil war veteran Mohammad Sanaullah, who was arrested after a foreigners’ tribunal of Assam declared him foreigner, has been released from a detention centre in Guwahati. After release, he said it was like Eid for him.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, “Be it Udupi, Guruvayur or Dwarkadhish, for us - the people of Gujarat, there is an emotional connection. Coming from Gujarat, the land of Dwarkadhish, to Guruvayur gives one a special feeling.”
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