Calling Shastra Puja as a 'tamasha', Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge further said that the previous Congress government bought weapons like the Bofors guns, but no one went and brought them by showing off.
Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid also said the struggles of the Congress party are such that it is unlikely to win the upcoming assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra.
Last year on Dussehra, Jalandhar-Amritsar DMU had run over people gathered to watch celebrations, killing about 60 people and leaving scores of others injured near the Dhobi Ghat grounds.
Shashi Tharoor has written another open letter to the Prime Minister asking him to condemn the filing of the FIR against the 'eminent personalities' on the direction of the Court, in the name of protection of 'dissent'
After a high-level meeting with state RTC officials on Sunday evening, CM Rao announced that the Telangana State RTC now has only 1200 employees, including those who had not joined the strike and who had resumed their duties before 6 pm on Saturday.