Lok Sabha Polls 2024: BJP to announce 100 candidates by February-end, sources
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will release its first list of at least 100 candidates for the April-May Lok Sabha elections by the end of February, reports said.
Jawaharlal Nehru in political news
In Kerala, Congress puts up united face as Sudhakaran, Satheesan set off on yatra to take on CPM, BJP
The Congress party’s protest yatra in Kerala ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, which was launched Friday, is being led by state Congress president K Sudhakaran as well as the senior party leader and Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, V D Satheesan.
Line between religion, State getting thinner… major departure: Kerala CM Vijayan on Ram temple event
Kerala Chief Minister and CPI(M)Politburo member Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday took exception to the Pran Prathishta ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya being held as a State event. “We had a strong tradition of maintaining separation between religion and the State. But that line demarcating religion and the State seems to be getting thinner,” Vjayan said after the consecration ceremony in a video message on social media.
Nair ‘saab’, the Faridabad District Magistrate who defied Nehru’s directive in 1949 to remove Ram Lalla idol
Remembered as “Nair saab” in Ayodhya, Kerala-born Kadamkalathil Karunakaran Nair, defied the diktat of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to remove the Ram Lalla idol, was suspended as a result, fought a legal battle against the decision, and won.
‘The first kar sevak’: ADM who blocked a CM after Ram Lalla ‘appeared’ in 1949
FORMER VHP leader Ashok Singhal called his grandfather “the first kar sevak of the Ayodhya movement”, recalls Raghvendra Singh, former Union Culture Secretary and ex-director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
The Congress role in Ram Mandir movement: 1949 to 1980s, how the party failed to speak in one voice
A couple of months before the Congress officially refused to attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, the party’s Madhya Pradesh chief ministerial candidate Kamal Nath told The Indian Express in November that Rajiv Gandhi was the one to get the locks of the Babri Masjid opened in the mid-1980s. This sounded like pandering to Hindus and revealed the inability of the party to speak in one voice on the Ram temple question. However, this confusion isn’t new.
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