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Subhas Chandra Bose’s struggle within Congress was a statement against the highly personalised high-command structure and dictatorial grip of Gandhi-Nehru

Saket Suryesh - 27 January, 2020

Stifled and crippled as a notional president of the Congress party, Subhas Bose had resigned within a year

News Reports

Partition imposed on minorities of Pakistan, temples, churches, gurdwaras vandalised: Here is what Modi said

OpIndia Staff - 12 December, 2019

PM Modi asked the public not to be misled by the Congress, which he said had promised relief to persecuted minorities but had never done anything for them.

Politics

Read Indira Gandhi’s letter referring to Veer Savarkar as ‘remarkable son of India’

OpIndia Staff - 17 October, 2019

In a letter dated May 30, 1980, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had written a letter to Pandit Bakhle, then secretary of Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, hailing Savarkar's contribution to the freedom struggle.

Opinions

They may throw ink on Savarkar’s statue, but it is the Congress who has a tainted face

Rahul Kaushik - 22 August, 2019

While top Congres leaders spent their so-called jail terms in posh guest houses, Savarkar was subjected to inhuman atrocities in Andaman.

News Reports

In 2012, UPA government had declared that ‘Father of the Nation’ title cannot be accorded to Mahatma Gandhi

OpIndia Staff - 17 May, 2019

UPA government in 2012 had clarified that there are no records in the government archives that declare Gandhi as the 'Father of the Nation'.

Economy and Finance

How Nehru led to agrarian distress and what could be the way forward for inclusive growth

pankajprasad - 9 February, 2019

Nehruvian model of capital intensive growth had a similar effect on the rural populace of India as Mao’s Great_Leap_Forward had on China’s rural inhabitants

News Reports

BJP plans a 100-feet statue of Dalit icon Uda Devi who fought against the British in 1857

K Bhattacharjee - 1 January, 2019

BJP has announced construction of a 100-feet tall statue in Uttar Pradesh of Uda Devi, a Dalit freedom fighter, who fought in the Indian War for Independence in 1857.

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