No reference to Mahatma's assassination in Pranab's speech: Yechury
New Delhi, June 8: CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday said that there was no reference to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination in the speech of former President Pranab Mukherjee at the RSS headquarters on Thursday.
He told the media that irrespective of what Mukherjee spoke on pluraralism and multi-faiths, what would remain in public memory is his presence at the RSS headquarters.
"What his daughter has said is correct. Visuals will remain, the speech will be forgotten," he said.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader also said the RSS has had no role in the independence movement.
To a question, he said he would not have gone to RSS headquarters if he was invited.
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Devendra Fadnavis plays video of Islamic scholar at Pune rally, harps on 'vote jihad'
Pune, Nov 16: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis continued to raise the pitch on "vote jihad" by playing a video of Islamic scholar Sajjad Nomani at a poll rally in Pune's Bhosari area on Saturday.
It is being said that a person who votes for the BJP must be ostracised, Fadnavis claimed.
"If these people are trying to do vote jihad, if they are saying they will destabilise the government through vote jihad, then you will also have to do dharmayudh of votes," Fadnavis said.
"If these people dream that they will come to power with the help of votes from one community in the land of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, then you will also have to come to the battlefield," he said in a swipe at the MVA.
