Intellectuals should be controlled: Union Minister Hegde
Bengaluru, June 17: Union Minister Ananth Kumar Hegde said that the leftist intellectuals, who have made their foolishness as their capital and kept their intellect for sale, should be controlled in the country.
Releasing a book ‘Hindutva’, a translated version of Veera Savarkar book into Kannada and published by Samrudha Sahitya at Suchitra Film Society here on Sunday, Hegde said that the intellectuals have been trying to tarnish the image of Hindutva. The intellectuals are good to see when they apply paint or wear mask. Once their mask is removed, they could not be seen. They have sold themselves to the foreign money and trying to defame the Hindutva, he said.
Hindus were not migrants. They were born in the same land. Hindu culture and Hindutva was one of the best lifestyle in the world. So, intellectuals need not raise hue and cry about this. Those intellectuals who do not know anything about this culture and history speak as they want, he said.
Today’s Ph.D is copy and paste
Hegde said that today’s Ph.D is just copy and paste process. But Savarkar did not do that. It should be taken to the people. Unfortunately, the intellectuals who are sleeping with their own intelligence should know about this. This book is the need of the hour, he said.
Hindu means insult!
“Christian can call themselves as Christians. Muslims can say Muslims. Shouldn’t we call ourselves as Hindus? Intellectuals feel happy to call themselves as secular. But when we call ourselves as Hindus, they say that we are insulting the Constitution”, he said.
Write as you like it
Media people might write that Hegde does not know pronunciation. They highlight that issue tomorrow. Moreover, they may say that Hegde pronounced ‘capacity’ as ‘capatity’. It is their ‘capatity’ to write in their style. Let them write whatever they want, he ridiculed.
Let media criticize
“My words may not reach all the audience in the hall. But those words will come in the media. If media praise me, people ask ‘have you adjusted with the media. So, let the media continue to criticize me”, he said.
Columnist Rohith Chakrathirtha, poet MN Vyasa Rao, writer GB Harish and others were present.
I won’t yield to threat
“I am from the Vishakantha cult. Media should report criticizing me. I will consider it as adoration. I am a Hindu and I won’t surrender to any threats. I am not the son of cowards to stop speaking like this”.
-Ananth Kumar Hegde, Union Minister
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
