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Politics

Former PM Dr Manmohan Singh trivialises 1984 Sikh genocide as a ‘sad event’, blames PV Narasimha Rao to shield Gandhis

OpIndia Staff - 5 December, 2019

Dr Manmohan Singh waters down 1984 anti-Sikh riots as 'sad event'.

Politics

Uttar Pradesh: Congress party expels 11 senior leaders, including Indira Gandhi’s trusted aide, on charges of ‘indiscipline’

OpIndia Staff - 26 November, 2019

Ram Krishna Dwivedi, a Congress veteran and Indira Gandhi's close aide, had defeated a former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh in a byelection from Maniram constituency of Gorakhpur in 1971.

News Reports

How Indira Gandhi gave away Malcha Mahal in middle of Delhi to mentally ill woman because she didn’t want to upset Muslims of Lucknow

OpIndia Staff - 25 November, 2019

If this New York Times article is to be believed, Indira Gandhi got played by a mentally ill woman because she didn't want to upset the Shias.

News Reports

Puducherry CM calls LG Kiran Bedi a ‘demon’ while addressing a meeting on Indira Gandhi’s 35th death anniversary

OpIndia Staff - 1 November, 2019

Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy said LG Kiran Bedi is a demon put up there by the Centre.

Opinions

Here is why ‘liberals’ can’t complain that BJP is ‘co-opting’ Sardar Patel

Abhishek Banerjee - 31 October, 2019

Today you will see the usual litany of complaints about how the BJP and Prime Minister Modi is “co-opting” Sardar Patel

Politics

Congress govt in Rajasthan stops the pension for MISA prisoners, says they were ‘rule breakers’ not freedom fighters

OpIndia Staff - 19 October, 2019

In January, Congress in Madhya Pradesh had also suspended the MISA pension but was forced to withdraw its decision after it led to an uproar in the state.

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.

Fact-Check

Shashi Tharoor presents photograph of Nehru in Soviet Russia as image from USA to downplay success of Howdy Modi

OpIndia Staff - 24 September, 2019

The photograph tweeted by Shashi Tharoor to belittle the 'Howdy Modi' event is not from the USA, neither this is from the year 1954. The image is from Moscow in USSR, and it is from 1955.

Social Media

Feroze, ‘The Forgotten’ Gandhi, finds no mention by grandchildren Rahul and Priyanka on his death anniversary

OpIndia Staff - 9 September, 2019

Rahul had visited Feroze Gandhi's tombstone only once in the last decade, in 2011. Before that, he had visited once in 2008. Priyanka had been there once in 2009. Their mother Sonia Gandhi had been there once back in 2001.

Opinions