Sabarimala stir will create a favourable opinion for BJP, says Rajagopal
5 years, 10 months ago

Sabarimala stir will create a favourable opinion for BJP, says Rajagopal

The Hindu  

Those in the forefront of the Sabarimala agitation to protect the traditions at the hill shrine are going to get a political dividend in the form of a favourable public opinion, O. Rajagopal, BJP MLA, has claimed. Mr. Rajagopal likened the Sabarimala agitation to the Ram Janmabhumi movement demanding construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya, which, he claimed, was a turning point in the political landscape of the country. Meanwhile, the BJP veteran claimed that Swami Vivekananda had reportedly called Kerala a “lunatic asylum” not because of untouchability prevalent in society then. Mr. Rajagopal said while untouchability was prevalent across the country, such a practice was present only in Kerala, and that must have prompted Vivekananda to call Kerala a lunatic asylum, he added.

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Rahul Gandhi not visiting Ram Temple fearing Islamic fundamentalists, says Kerala BJP president K. Surendran
9 months, 1 week ago

Rahul Gandhi not visiting Ram Temple fearing Islamic fundamentalists, says Kerala BJP president K. Surendran

The Hindu  

National Democratic Alliance candidate for the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency K. Surendran has alleged that Congress leader and his opponent Rahul Gandhi has evaded from visiting the Ram Temple in Ayodhya fearing the Muslim fundamentalists. If Rahul’s secularism is not one-sided, he should have visited the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, siad Mr. Surendran, who is also the State president of …

‘All previous records will be broken’: PM Modi ahead of Lok Sabha poll dates announcement
9 months, 3 weeks ago

‘All previous records will be broken’: PM Modi ahead of Lok Sabha poll dates announcement

Hindustan Times  

On the eve of the Parliament poll dates announcement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that the "lotus is going to bloom" in the southern state, and the BJP-led NDA would secure power at the Centre by surpassing previous records in the upcoming polls. Reaching out to the Christian community in Kerala, crucial for the NDA's victory in Lok …

‘Ayodhya means…’: What RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said ahead of Ram Temple event
11 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Ayodhya means…’: What RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said ahead of Ram Temple event

Hindustan Times  

Ahead of the Pran Pratistha ceremony at Ram Temple, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Mohan Bhagwat delved into the historical significance of the occasion as he urged to end the decades of conflict surrounding the Ayodhya dispute. Bhagwat underscored the consistent attempts to control the birthplace of Lord Ram, noting the failed 1857 War of Independence and subsequent British efforts to …

Ram and Rama: Why temple politics doesn’t ring a bell in South India
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Ram and Rama: Why temple politics doesn’t ring a bell in South India

Hindustan Times  

The story began in 1853, long before India became an independent nation when one of the first recorded incidents of violence over the holy site of Ayodhya took place during the reign of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh. Even in the early 1990s, when senior BJP leader LK Advani led a ‘rath yatra’ from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya …

'Siddaramaiah Is Our Ram, Why Should He Visit 'BJP's Ram' In Ayodhya': Congress Leader's Comment Stirs Row
1 year ago

'Siddaramaiah Is Our Ram, Why Should He Visit 'BJP's Ram' In Ayodhya': Congress Leader's Comment Stirs Row

ABP News  

A recent statement by Karnataka Congress leader equating Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to Lord Ram created a stir in the state on Tuesday. Former Karnataka Minister Holalkere Anjaneya compared Siddaramaiah to Lord Ram and said the idol installed inside the sanctum sanctorum in Ayodhya would be 'BJP's Ram'. The statement of Anjaneya comes after CM Siddaramaiah said that he has not …

Kerala: Sea of devotee thong Sabarimala temple
1 year ago

Kerala: Sea of devotee thong Sabarimala temple

Hindustan Times  

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Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction accuses BJP of ‘communalising’ Nashik temple incident
1 year, 7 months ago

Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena faction accuses BJP of ‘communalising’ Nashik temple incident

The Hindu  

Castigating the special investigation team probe ordered by Maharashtra Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis into the Trimbakeshwar temple incident as “a well thought out political move”, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on May 17 accused the ruling BJP of trying to destroy social harmony in Maharashtra. Speaking in Nashik on Wednesday, Mr. Raut was responding to accusations made by BJP leaders …

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?
2 years, 4 months ago

Mohan Guruswamy | The challenge of the cults: Can we overcome them?

Deccan Chronicle  

Way back in 1843 Karl Marx in an introduction to a book that criticised Hegel's Elements of the Philosophy of the Right wrote: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. All the major religions have seen the emergence of outsized cult figures or “godmen” who themselves become …

Mohan Bhagwat’s Speech on Gyanvapi Mosque Had a Hidden Political Message
2 years, 7 months ago

Mohan Bhagwat’s Speech on Gyanvapi Mosque Had a Hidden Political Message

The Quint  

First, on the Gyanvapi issue. The emphasis on not wanting a "movement" on the Gyanvapi issue and stressing that joining the Ram Janmabhoomi movement was against RSS' "nature" is significant. Bhagwat's speech also was a clever balancing between showing the Sangh's support for a temple on the Gyanvapi site but also emphasising that it should be done through amicable dialogue …

Battleground Kerala: Fight for Hindu votes, Sabarimala back in spotlight
3 years, 10 months ago

Battleground Kerala: Fight for Hindu votes, Sabarimala back in spotlight

India TV News  

God's own country is gearing up for polls and the Sabarimala temple issue is back in the spotlight. 'Secular' Congress plays Hindutva card A year later, when the voters of Kerala turned the tide in the LDF's favour in the local body polls and the party became hopeful of returning to power, the 'secular-congress' played the religion card to woo …

The Opposition enables Hindutva
4 years, 5 months ago

The Opposition enables Hindutva

Hindustan Times  

On August 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi set the process of the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya in motion. Strengthening any political project requires identifying its weaknesses, rather than pretending that all is well What is disappointing, however, is the reaction of the secular camp. Its response can be described as empty assertions against the victory of political …

Ayodhya verdict: Ram Janmabhoomi movement is not a reclamation of agency for Hindus, but a distraction from dismal mediocrity
5 years, 1 month ago

Ayodhya verdict: Ram Janmabhoomi movement is not a reclamation of agency for Hindus, but a distraction from dismal mediocrity

Firstpost  

For many, the movement for Ram Janmabhoomi’s significance lay not in the claim for birthplace of the historical Ram, but as a reclamation of civilisational agency. *** Everything has a context — and the question that is key to understanding the Ram Janmabhoomi movement is to ask why is it that Hindus’ historical injuries, real and imagined, still bleed? “Hinduism …

Opinion | Sabarimala lends a third dimension to Kerala polls
5 years, 8 months ago

Opinion | Sabarimala lends a third dimension to Kerala polls

Live Mint  

On election day in Kerala, when the sun rose from beyond the eastern mountains, it cast the long shadow of a small hill and a temple on top of it, Sabarimala, over its political landscape. A state whose subjects are neatly wired in binaries — in films, it is Mohanlal and Mammootty, for the soccer-crazy, it still is, Brazil and …

BJP Manifesto promises to secure and protect faith, traditions and rituals related to Sabarimala
5 years, 9 months ago

BJP Manifesto promises to secure and protect faith, traditions and rituals related to Sabarimala

Op India  

On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the BJP’s election manifesto for 2019 Lok Sabha polls at the party’s Delhi headquarters. The Communist Kerala government faced massive protests after it deliberately allowed politically motivated ‘activists’ to enter the shrine and violate age-old customs while arresting Hindu devotees to keep them away from entering the Sabarimala shrine. In a deliberate attempt …

Kerala: One of BJP's Lok Sabha election campaigns will be Sabarimala issue
5 years, 9 months ago

Kerala: One of BJP's Lok Sabha election campaigns will be Sabarimala issue

India TV News  

The Kerala unit of the BJP on Thursday made it clear that one of its Lok Sabha election campaigns will be the Sabarimala issue. Sreedharan Pillai said in a statement that if the Central government has the powers to bring out new laws to protect the sanctity of Sabarimala temple, then the BJP will do its best to see that …

BJP does not see Sabarimala as a political wedge in Kerala
5 years, 10 months ago

BJP does not see Sabarimala as a political wedge in Kerala

Live Mint  

Thiruvananthapuram: The Sabarimala controversy was supposed to have become a major wedge for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Kerala. BJP state president P S Sreedharan Pillai, who had earlier said Sabarimala was a golden opportunity for the party to grow in Kerala, said on Tuesday the temple issue was not its main poll plank in …

Rahul Gandhi’s vanity Hindutva and the Ram Janmabhoomi issue: Will a dip in Kumbh wash away the sins or reveal the reality within?
5 years, 11 months ago

Rahul Gandhi’s vanity Hindutva and the Ram Janmabhoomi issue: Will a dip in Kumbh wash away the sins or reveal the reality within?

Op India  

The Supreme Court’s verdict on the Sabarimala issue had thrown open the gates for a brutal, government- Hindu organisations including the RSS and VHP have been pressurising the central government to bring an ordinance to start construction of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. Be it political parties or opinion makers in the media, who regularly indulge in Hindu-bashing while also …

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat voices his support for traditions of Sabarimala Temple at Dharma Sansad in Kumbh
5 years, 11 months ago

RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat voices his support for traditions of Sabarimala Temple at Dharma Sansad in Kumbh

Op India  

The Dharma Sansad organized by VHP at Kumbh in Prayagraj began on Thursday. He said, “The Temple has its own traditions but the Court did not take into account the sentiments of crores of Hindus which have been hurt.” Mohan Bhagwat, RSS on #Sabarimala at VHP’s Dharma Sansad in Prayagraj: Uski apni parampara rehti hai, lekin desh bhar ke croron …

Politics at play
5 years, 11 months ago

Politics at play

The Hindu  

It took more than three months after the Supreme Court declared the bar on women in the 10-50 age group at the Sabarimala temple as unconstitutional for two young women to finally get into the shrine, during the night of the New Year, with their faces covered and with the support of specially tasked policemen in plain clothes. The temple …

Sabarimala row: After the Left’s lakhs-strong ‘Women’s Wall’, the Right’s to rally lakhs of pro-ban supporters in Kerala
5 years, 11 months ago

Sabarimala row: After the Left’s lakhs-strong ‘Women’s Wall’, the Right’s to rally lakhs of pro-ban supporters in Kerala

Live Mint  

Ernakulam: The leaders of Sabarimala ‘Karma Samithi ’, an umbrella outfit consisting of several pro-right groups championing the ban against menstruating women in Sabarimala hill shrine in Kerala, has said it will organise a mega “devotional” rally of two lakh people on Sunday. The development follows the state’s ruling Communist Party of India, CPM’s, show of strength on 1 January, …

News18 Wrap: PM Modi Kicks off 2019 Campaign, Sabarimala Protests Burn Kerala and Other Stories You Might Have Missed
6 years ago

News18 Wrap: PM Modi Kicks off 2019 Campaign, Sabarimala Protests Burn Kerala and Other Stories You Might Have Missed

News 18  

News18 Wrap brings you some of the biggest stories on News18.com today to help you stay updated at all times. In case you missed it Kicking off the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hit out at the Congress for the involvement of its leaders in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots and for …

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