'If it has guts...': Fadnavis dares MVA government over 'Hanuman Chalisa'
2 years, 8 months ago

'If it has guts...': Fadnavis dares MVA government over 'Hanuman Chalisa'

Hindustan Times  

Former Maharashtra chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Monday slammed the Maha Vikas Aghadi over the 'Hanuman Chalisa' row, accusing the Uddhav Thackeray-led government of wanting to “crush and kill” the opposition. He said if sedition charges are imposed against the Amravati MP-MLA couple - Navneet and Ravi Rana - then the opposition will chant Hanuman Chalisa together. Senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis Fadnavis also urged NCP workers to chant Hanuman Chalisa with him in front of his residence. The Maharashtra MP-MLA couple was detained on Saturday over allegedly inciting the public after they gave a warning to Thackeray that they will chant Hanuman Chalisa outside his Bandra home - ‘Matoshree’.

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'If you recite Hanuman Chalisa again, you will be killed': Navneet Rana claims receiving 11 threat calls
2 years, 6 months ago

'If you recite Hanuman Chalisa again, you will be killed': Navneet Rana claims receiving 11 threat calls

India TV News  

Highlights The complaint stated the person on the other end spoke to Rana in a very inappropriate way The caller abused her and also threatened that if she comes to Maharashtra she will be killed The complaint that Rana was traumatised Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana, who was recently granted bail by a Mumbai court in connection with the …

'If you recite Hanuman Chalisa again...': MP Navneet Rana receives 'life threatening calls'
2 years, 6 months ago

'If you recite Hanuman Chalisa again...': MP Navneet Rana receives 'life threatening calls'

Firstpost  

According to the complaint filed by Navneet Rana’s personal assistant, the MP received 11 calls on Tuesday from 5.27 pm to 5.47 pm on her personal mobile number New Delhi: Independent Lok Sabha MP Navneet Rana, who was recently granted bail by a Mumbai court in connection with Matoshree-Hanuman Chalisa case, on Wednesday filed a complaint with Delhi Police alleging …

Hanuman Chalisa Row: Notice Issued to Rana Couple as Mumbai Police Seek Cancellation of Their Bail
2 years, 7 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa Row: Notice Issued to Rana Couple as Mumbai Police Seek Cancellation of Their Bail

News 18  

Hanuman Chalisa Row: A special court in Mumbai on Monday issued a notice to independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA-husband Ravi Rana, accused in a sedition case following a row over the recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, seeking their response to an application filed by the Mumbai police urging for their bail to be canceled. Navneet Rana, the Lok Sabha …

Crossed Line Of Free Speech But Prima Facie Sedition Not Made Out: Special Court On MP Navneet Rana & MLA Ravi Rana Bail
2 years, 7 months ago

Crossed Line Of Free Speech But Prima Facie Sedition Not Made Out: Special Court On MP Navneet Rana & MLA Ravi Rana Bail

Live Law  

While observing that independent MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana had crossed that line of freedom and speech in their interviews to the media in the Hanuman Chalisa row, their acts were prima facie not seditious, the Special Court had said in their bail order. On Wednesday, the special court granted the duo conditional bail in the sedition FIR …

Hanuman Chalisa row: Rana couple gets bail
2 years, 7 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row: Rana couple gets bail

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: A sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted bail to Member of Parliament Navneet Rana and her husband, legislator Ravi Rana, days after they were on April 23 booked for promoting enmity and sedition. The couple was booked for their insistence on chanting Hanuman Chalisa outside chief minister Uddhav Thackeray’s residence “to remind the Shiv Sena leader of his …

Hanuman Chalisa row: Mumbai court grants bail to MP Navneet Rana, MLA Ravi Rana
2 years, 7 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row: Mumbai court grants bail to MP Navneet Rana, MLA Ravi Rana

Hindustan Times  

A special court on Wednesday granted bail to independent MP-MLA couple Navneet and Ravi Rana in the Matoshree- Hanuman Chalisa case. The couple was arrested on April 23 following their call to chant the Hanuman Chalisa in front of Shiv Sena supremo and Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's family residence ‘Matoshree’. The lawmaker couple had dropped their plans to chant …

Breaking: [Hanuman Chalisa Row] Navneet Rana & Ravi Rana Granted Bail By Mumbai Special Court
2 years, 7 months ago

Breaking: [Hanuman Chalisa Row] Navneet Rana & Ravi Rana Granted Bail By Mumbai Special Court

Live Law  

The Mumbai Special Court on Monday allowed the bail applications of independent MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana in the sedition FIR over forcibly wanting to chant the hanuman chalisa outside the personal residence of Uddhav Thackarey, Chief Minister of Maharashtra. Opposing the bail duo's bail application the Mumbai Police claimed that their intention behind wanting to …

Bail or jail? Mumbai court to decide Rana couple's fate on Monday
2 years, 7 months ago

Bail or jail? Mumbai court to decide Rana couple's fate on Monday

India Today  

Mumbai Sessions Court will pronounce its verdict on Monday, on a bail plea filed by MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana in the case against them over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence. CONSENT Meanwhile, representing the police, SPP Pradeep Gharat countered advocate Ponda's argument saying that taking the consent …

Opinion | How can recital of Hanuman Chalisa amount to sedition?
2 years, 7 months ago

Opinion | How can recital of Hanuman Chalisa amount to sedition?

India TV News  

High voltage politics is on in Mumbai over the issue of reciting Hanuman Chalisa, even as Independent MP Navneet Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana are presently in jail. The High Court said, “Such a declaration that a person would recite some religious verses either in the personal residence of another person or even at a public place is …

Hanuman Chalisa row: BJP desperate due to its inability to form govt in Maharashtra, claims Sanjay Raut
2 years, 7 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row: BJP desperate due to its inability to form govt in Maharashtra, claims Sanjay Raut

India TV News  

Highlights Raut claimed the BJP's desperation stems from its inability to come back to power in the state. BJP delegation of MLAs from Mumbai met Union Minister of State State for Home Nityanand Rai in Delhi Raut also claimed that BJP leader Kirit Somaiya had applied tomato sauce to pretend he was bleeding. A day after BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis …

Recite Hanuman Chalisa but if you do dadagiri ...: Uddhav Thackeray's stern warning
2 years, 8 months ago

Recite Hanuman Chalisa but if you do dadagiri ...: Uddhav Thackeray's stern warning

India Today  

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday, April 25, said playing Hanuman Chalisa is not a problem as he strictly warned against ‘dadagiri’. Speaking for the first time on the ongoing political whirlpool in his state over the recitation of Hanuman Chalisa, the chief minister said, “If you want to recite Hanuman Chalisa, do it by coming home. Unless this …

‘If reciting Hanuman Chalisa sedition, we will commit it every day,’ says Devendra Fadnavis
2 years, 8 months ago

‘If reciting Hanuman Chalisa sedition, we will commit it every day,’ says Devendra Fadnavis

The Hindu  

Strongly condemning the arrests of MP Navneet and her MLA husband Ravi Rana and the assault on Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kirit Somaiya, Leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said his party had boycotted the all–party meet over the loudspeaker issue as the Uddhav Thackeray–led tripartite Maha Vikas Aghadi government was attempting to crush the Opposition by misusing …

Hanuman Chalisa Row: ‘BJP’s Frustrated Mind Behind This’, Writes Shiv Sena’s Mouthpiece, Saamna
2 years, 8 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa Row: ‘BJP’s Frustrated Mind Behind This’, Writes Shiv Sena’s Mouthpiece, Saamna

ABP News  

New Delhi: Taking a dig at the incident of reciting Hanuman Chalisa by MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana, Shiv Sena’s mouthpiece magazine Saamna said that Bharatiya Janata Party’s “frustrated mind” was behind this, reported news agency ANI. BJP's frustrated mind is behind this: Shiv Sena's mouthpiece Saamana — ANI April 25, 2022 Further it wrote that …

'Charge us all with sedition if chanting Hanuman Chalisa is anti-national': Devendra Fadnavis to Maha govt
2 years, 8 months ago

'Charge us all with sedition if chanting Hanuman Chalisa is anti-national': Devendra Fadnavis to Maha govt

India TV News  

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis has accused the Maharashtra government of misusing police and filing false cases against the Opposition. If sedition charges get imposed on Navneet and Ravi Rana for chanting Hanuman Chalisa, we will call it. Fadnavis also requested NCP workers to come and chant Hanuman Chalisa with him in front of his residence. We want to see if …

Hanuman Chalisa row: Navneet and Ravi Rana's lawyer calls case ‘bogus’, explains why
2 years, 8 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row: Navneet and Ravi Rana's lawyer calls case ‘bogus’, explains why

Hindustan Times  

Soon after Amravati MP Navneet Kaur Rana and her MLA husband Ravi Rana were arrested and sent to judicial custody for 14 days on Sunday, their advocate Rizwan Merchant called the case “an entire bogus”. The Maharashtra MP-MLA couple was detained on Saturday over allegedly inciting the public after they gave a warning to chief minister Uddhav Thackeray that they …

Uddhav Thackeray framed us, says arrested MLA Ravi Rana as Hanuman Chalisa row escalates
2 years, 8 months ago

Uddhav Thackeray framed us, says arrested MLA Ravi Rana as Hanuman Chalisa row escalates

India Today  

MP Navneet Rana's husband Ravi Rana on Sunday alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray framed him and his wife after they were taken into custody by Mumbai Police over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Uddhav Thackeray's private residence. Speaking exclusively to India Today, Ravi Rana said, "False cases have been put on us by the chief …

Hanuman Chalisa row: Ravi, Navneet Rana charged with sedition, sent to judicial custody
2 years, 8 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row: Ravi, Navneet Rana charged with sedition, sent to judicial custody

India Today  

A Mumbai court on Sunday sent MP Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana to judicial remand till May 6. The couple was arrested last evening for allegedly "creating enmity between different groups" over their threats to recite the Hanuman Chalisa outside Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's home. "They have registered false offense against us," MLA Ravi Rana was …

'Who said Aurangzeb is dead!': BJP leader's take on Hanuman Chalisa row
2 years, 8 months ago

'Who said Aurangzeb is dead!': BJP leader's take on Hanuman Chalisa row

Hindustan Times  

BJP leader CT Ravi on Saturday lambasted Maharashtra's Uddhav Thackeray government following what all transpired throughout the day over two politicians' plan to chant Hanuman Chalisa outside Uddhav Thackeray's residence Matoshree. Uddhav Thackeray was at the centre of the Hanuman Chalisa controversy on Saturday after the Rana couple were arrested. Following a day full of political blitzkrieg, Ravi Rana and …

Hanuman Chalisa row | Sena hits the street as Rana couple arrested
2 years, 8 months ago

Hanuman Chalisa row | Sena hits the street as Rana couple arrested

The Hindu  

Lok Sabha MP from Amravati, Navneet Rana and her husband MLA Ravi Rana on Saturday were arrested by Mumbai police for promoting enmity between different groups and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony. The couple had come to Mumbai after announcing that it will recite Hanuman Chalisa at Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s residence Matoshri. After arrest, the couple too …

‘If you have guts...': Sanjay Raut challenges Ranas over 'Hanuman Chalisa' plan
2 years, 8 months ago

‘If you have guts...': Sanjay Raut challenges Ranas over 'Hanuman Chalisa' plan

Hindustan Times  

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut and Maharashtra minister Dilip Walse-Patil ripped into Ravi Rana and Navneet Kaur - the MLA-MP couple at the heart of the 'Hanuman Chalisa' row in Mumbai - alleging their actions are part of a 'conspiracy' to upend law and order in the state. Questioned over unruly scenes outside Rana and Navneet Kaur's home - where …

Hanuman chalisa plan by MLA-MP couple at Uddhav Thacekeray home sparks row
2 years, 8 months ago

Hanuman chalisa plan by MLA-MP couple at Uddhav Thacekeray home sparks row

Hindustan Times  

A warning by two Maharashtra leaders - Member of Legislative Assembly Ravi Rana and his wife and Member of Parliament Navneet Rana - has prompted the Mumbai Police to tighten the security outside chief minister Uddhav Thackeray's Bandra home - Matoshree. Last week, Ravi Rana had threatened to chant “Hanuman Chalisa” - a hymn in praise of the Hindu God …

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