Minister of Textiles Smriti Irani addresses with Saroj Pandey, Riti Pathak and Maneka Gandhi, Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt and others BJP MP after a meeting with Election Commission o...
BJP leaders Maneka Gandhi, Poonam Mahajan, Varun Gandhi and others leave after BJP parliamentary party meeting, in New Delhi.
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi arrives at Parliament House during the ongoing Winter Session, in New Delhi.
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi and others leave after the BJP parliamentary party meeting, in New Delhi.
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi with her son and MP Varun Gandhi arrives to pay tribute to her husband the late Sanjay Gandhi on his 39th death anniversary at his memorial, in New Delhi.
BJP MP from Sultanpur constituency Maneka Gandhi takes oath as a member on the second day of the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha, at Parliament House in New Delhi.
BJP MP from Sultanpur constituency Maneka Gandhi arrives for the first session of the 17th Lok Sabha at Parliament House in New Delhi.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a group photo with the recipients of 'Nari Shakti Puraskar', in New Delhi. Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and S...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitates a brave girl during his interaction with the winners of Rashtriya Bal Puraskar - 2019, in New Delhi. Union Minister for Women and Child Dev...
President Ram Nath Kovind with Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi after the award presentation of Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar - 2019, at Rashtrapati Bhava...
Union Minister for Women and Child Development, Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, visits the exhibition stalls, on the concluding day of 6th 'Women of India Organic Festival', at Leisure Valle...
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and boxer Mary Kom inaugurate the second Inter-Child Care Institutional Festival 'Hausla - 2018', at JLN Stadium...
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi and ace boxer Mary Kom during the inauguration of the second Inter-Child Care Institutional Festival 'Hausla - 2...
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh addresses at the launch of the Cyber Crime Prevention against Women and Children (CCPWC) portal, in New Delhi.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi addresses the National Conference of State/UT Ministries In-Charge of Women and Child Development, in New Delhi....
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi with her son and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi arrive to pay tribute to Sanjay Gandhi on his 38th de...
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi pays tribute to her husband Sanjay Gandhi on his 38th death anniversary at his memorial in New Delhi.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi participates in a programme (Yoga for pregnant women), on the occasion of the 4th International Day of Yoga 2018...
Union Minister for Women & Child Development Maneka Gandhi addresses a press conference regarding her ministry's achievements and initiatives, in New Delhi.
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi interacts with the members of the INSV Tarini team, after conferring the 'Nari Shakti Puraskar' at a function, in New D...
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So asked Atal Behari Vajpayee. Or so says the man described as Advani's problem about the man they called BJP's mukhota, or mask. We are not sure whether Sri Rajnath Singh's description of it as "a geo-cultural concept" would have satisfied him.
As Prime Minister, Atalji rarely used the term Hindutva. The one time he did so on a public platform was to sharply rebuke its narrow, dogmatic and exclusivist projection. The occasion was the launch of a book, India First, authored by the late K.R. Malkani, at 7 Race Course Road in March 2002. Here is how PTI reported his speech on that day. “In a clear disapproval of the recent actions of the so-called practitioners of Hindutva, the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, tonight said it would be better to ‘keep a distance’ from the kind of Hindutva being practised by some now. Speaking at a book release function here, he said when Swami Vivekananda spoke of Hinduism, nobody called him communal. ‘But now, some people have defined Hindutva in such a manner that it is better to keep a distance from it.’ He said Hindutva should not be equated with religion as it was ‘a way of life’. We should keep away from such Hindutva which is stagnant.”
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Interesting also that while many have commented on ABV's absence that proved expensive for the BJP this time around, another man, Pramod Mahajan, instrumental for their coming to power, had gone largely unremembered, until today, when Maneka Gandhi felt the need to compare his style of functioning with Arun Jaitley's.
