H D Revanna defends selection of Banu Mushtaq to inaugurate Dasara festival
Hassan : H D Revanna, MLA from Hassan defended the state government’s decision to have writer Banu Mushtaq inaugurate this year’s Dasara festival on Tuesday. He urged people not to oppose her selection on communal grounds.
Speaking to reporters in Hassan, Revanna said, “Writer Banu Mushtaq has been involved in several struggles for decades. What is wrong in choosing her and giving her an opportunity to inaugurate the Dasara festival?”
He criticised those objecting to the choice because of her faith, stating, “A few are opposing the government for choosing her as she belongs to the Muslim community. It is not right to divide two religions, Hindu-Muslim. We should understand that we are Indian. It is not right to point fingers at this selection.”
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
