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Varun Gandhi

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    BJP MP Varun Gandhi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

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    BJP MP Varun Gandhi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

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    BJP leaders Maneka Gandhi, Poonam Mahajan, Varun Gandhi and others leave after BJP parliamentary party meeting, in New Delhi.

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    Union Ministers Smriti Irani, Ramesh Pokhriyal and BJP MP Varun Gandhi arrive for the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting, at Parliament House in New Delhi.

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    BJP MPs Varun Gandhi and Poonam Mahajan on the first day of the Winter Session of Parliament, in New Delhi

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    Union Sports Minister Kiren Rijiju, Union Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi and others leave after the BJP parliamentary par...

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    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.

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    BJP MP and Lok Sabha candidate from Pilibhit Varun Gandhi, files his nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Pilibhit.

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    BJP MP and parliamentary candidate from Pilibhit district, Varun Gandhi, arrives to file his nomination for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, in Pilibhit.

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    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...

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    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi speaks at “Yuva Samvad” in Ranchi.

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    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Varun Gandhi being greeted by followers of Mahatma Gandhi as he arrives to deliver a dialogue during 'Yuva Sanwad' in Ranchi.

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    BJP MP Varun Gandhi while speaking at an institute on the 'Empowering of Technical and Professional Education', in Meerut.

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    BJP MP Varun Gandhi being felicitated as he delivers a lecture on 'Bharat Nav Nirman Ke Liye Nayi Soch' at the ITA Machkhoa, in Guwahati.

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    BJP MP Varun Gandhi with sociologist Bindeshwar Pathak during Parliamentarian Conclave at Gayan Bhawan in Patna.

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    BJP leader Varun Gandhi speaks in the Lok Sabha during the ongoing monsoon session of Parliament, in New Delhi.

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    Varun Gandhi, BJP MP from Sultanpur constituency at Parliament house during the winter session of the Parliament, in New Delhi.

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    BJP leader Varun Gandhi is garlanded at a function, in Gaya.

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    Why am I not a Gandhi yet?

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  • 'Didn't Get Many Votes Of Minority Community But...': Varun Gandhi In Pilibhit
    BJP MP Varun Gandhi, who had swapped constituency with his mother Maneka Gandhi in the recent election, said he will not leave Pilibhit and will continue to serve the people of this constituency.
    Jun 11, 2019
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • I Am Sanjay Gandhi's Son, Such People Untie My Shoelaces: Varun Gandhi On Oppn Candidate In Sultanpur
    BJP leader Varun Gandhi, while campaigning for his mother Maneka Gandhi in Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh in a reference to the SP-BSP candidate said 'I get my shoelaces untied by such people'
    May 05, 2019
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • No Problem If You Don't Vote For Me, Can Still Come To Me For Your Work, Varun Gandhi Tells Muslims
    Varun Gandhi has been fielded by BJP from Pilibhit- a seat which he had won in 2009 and 2014.
    Apr 22, 2019
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • BJP Releases List For UP, Murli Manohar Joshi Dropped; Maneka, Varun Gandhi Swap Seats
    Murli Manohar Joshi had won from Kanpur in 2014 but was told by the party leadership that he would not be fielded in the coming elections.
    Mar 26, 2019
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Varun Gandhi Wants Rich MPs To Forego SalaryTo Reduce Inequality Gap In India
    Jan 28, 2018
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • If There Was No Gandhi In My Name, I Would Not Have Become A Two-Time MP: Varun Gandhi
    Gandhi said many talented youngsters are unable to join and shine in politics as they do not have influential fathers and godfathers.
    Dec 17, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Varun Gandhi May Ditch BJP To Join Cousin Rahul's Congress: Reports
    Senior Muslim leader Haji Jameeluddin said Varun was being ignored in the BJP and that no other leader other than Narendra Modi is allowed to say his or her 'Mann Ki Baat' on public forums.
    Nov 28, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • 'If My Surname Was Not Gandhi, Would I Have Become MP At 29,' Asks Varun
    Nov 12, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • Day After Congress Attack, EC Hit With 'Toothless Tiger' Jibe By Varun Gandhi
    Oct 14, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
  • 'Everybody Has To Fall In Line': BJP On Varun Gandhi's Article On Rohingyas
    'One of our MPs was just expressing his opinion, that humanitarian consideration must be seen on the Rohingyas and that they should be retained on the Indian soil, but ultimately the Government of India takes the decision'
    Sep 27, 2017
    | Outlook Web Bureau
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Magazine
  • The Subcontinental Menu
    Mar 06, 2019
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  • Bastions Of Unreason | By Feroze Varun Gandhi
    Education, labour, healthcare, credit...A Rural Manifesto ponders over all these. In this extract, it focuses on the human and ecological costs of those vaunted ‘temples’—dams.
    Dec 05, 2018
    | Varun Gandhi
  • The BJP’s Gandhian Dilemma
    Politics is in his blood—the blood of a family his party’s top men love to hate. The cutting-to-size was waiting to happen.
    Jun 16, 2016
    | Mihir Srivastava
  • A Low-Down On Foreign Manna
    Don’t read too much into the seemingly rapid growth of greenfield FDI in India. Here’s why it’s no indication of a revival in our investment cycle.
    May 06, 2016
    | Varun Gandhi
  • <b>New Home</b> An Afghan widow and her kids in Delhi
    Under The Banyan Tree
    In keeping with our culture of open arms, India has absorbed lakhs of refugees of S. Asia. We need to formalise this with clear-cut laws.
    Dec 28, 2015
    | Varun Gandhi
  • <b>Might of State</b> Activists hold a vigil in Delhi
    The Noose Casts A Shameful Shadow
    Do away with the death sentence. It’s vengeance legalised.
    Aug 10, 2015
    | Varun Gandhi
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    Some Macro Changes For Microfinance
    MFIs are a good idea. But in India, the concept needs tweaking.
    May 04, 2015
    | Varun Gandhi
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    A Coven Of Spooks
    Our security agencies need reform, and from the ground up
    Mar 02, 2015
    | Varun Gandhi
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    A dramatised biography of the ‘foreign’ bahu, one the Congress was determined should stay under wraps. It’s out finally.
    Jan 26, 2015
    | Javier Moro
  • <b>Gimme red?</b> Butcher shops selling beef in the bylanes of Calcutta
    Prime Cuts
    An air thick with innuendo and contempt produces a new stigma: meat-eating
    Oct 20, 2014
    | Saba Naqvi
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  • Do Elections Bring Out The Worst In Politicians?
    Do Elections Bring Out The Worst In Politicians?

    Andre Béteille in the Telegraph:

    It was not like that in 1951-52, at the time of the first general elections. What has happened between then and now is the steady advance of identity politics over all other kinds of politics in India. Nobody can seriously expect that identity politics will vanish from the Indian scene or even that appeals to the loyalties of caste and community at election time will come to an end. But as long as all issues are subordinated to the articulation of the grievances of particular caste and particular communities, albeit in the name of equity and justice, the electoral process will continue to move in the direction in which it was set off about twenty years ago.

    More here

    Apr 14, 2009
  • Varun Gandhi: When The Babalog Turn Feral
    Varun Gandhi: When The Babalog Turn Feral

    Mukul Kesavan, in the Telegraph, suggests that Varun Gandhi's hate speeches could only have been made by an anglophone Indian:

    Varun Gandhi’s recent troubles need to be understood in their proper context. That context is that he is what an earlier generation of critics used to call an Indo-Anglian writer, a poet. In 2000, he wrote a book of poems with the subtle and original title, The Otherness of Self, illustrated, among others, by Anjolie Ela Menon and Manjit Bawa. Asked about his debut, Varun Gandhi said that he wrote poetry “[b]ecause it is so precise and illustrates the strength of language”. To contrast this writerly sentiment with the thigh-slapping crudeness of his election speeches would be a cheap shot because there’s no real contradiction here. Feroze Varun Gandhi reserves his finer feelings for English verse; in the course of an election campaign, he speaks the robust vernacular prose in which Indian politics is done.

    More here

    Apr 02, 2009
  • 'There Is No Point In Raising The Same Point'
    'There Is No Point In Raising The Same Point'

    "We understand his viewpoint. I also know your viewpoint. It is not our viewpoint. And there is no point in raising the same point!"

    -- Venkaiah Naidu, to Outlook, when asked about Varun Gandhi

    Mar 28, 2009
  • Varun Gandhi's Educational Qualifications
    Varun Gandhi's Educational Qualifications

    There is a long history of the  educational qualifications of the Gandhis not quite being what they are claimed to be.

    So it should not really be a surprise, really, that Shri Varun Gandhi, who in his appeal to the Allahabad High Court to quash the criminal case filed against him for making hate speeches in Pilibhit, had claimed that he had graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE), and then received a Masters degree at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) actually turns out to have a

    "degree from the LSE (BSc in Economics), earned through a distance-learning provision, although he was never admitted to LSE's own undergraduate body. Later he was enrolled at SOAS (MSc in Sociology) but never completed the degree,"

    as this petition points out.

    The above is reiterated in a widely circulated e-mail from Dr. Annu Jalais Dept. of Anthropology, London School of Economics (LSE):

    The SOAS Alumni Relations Officer, has confirmed that Feroze Varun Gandhi never graduated in Sociology from SOAS (as claimed by him/media) as he withdrew from his MSc programme before completing it.  Feroze Varun Gandhi's connection to the LSE was only through the "University of London External System", which is a distance-learning provision administered by the LSE. He was never been admitted into the LSE's own undergraduate student body and was never a member of LSE's campus..

    Mar 28, 2009
  • L'affaire Varun Gandhi: Hypocritical Media Indignation?
    L'affaire Varun Gandhi: Hypocritical Media Indignation?

    Writing in the Hoot, S. R. Ramanujan finds the media’s indignation hypocritical:

    If the media really believed that Varun Gandhi’s speech would cause unrest among a section of the people, did the repeat telecasts of the speech make any sense?

    ...When the Election Commission sincerely believes that it was indeed a "hate speech" and might cause communal disturbances, it should have intervened and restrained the media from repeat telecast. They did their job by reporting the event with the CD supplied to all channels by a mysterious source. Follow up stories need not always be with the same offensive CD. Finding an excuse to repeat the telecast of the CD only exposes the channels' real intentions. It also helps those who charge the mainline channels of being anti-majority.

    Though conventional ethics demands that the source need not be disclosed, on instances like this, where the CD is not the result of the efforts put in by the reporting staff, revealing the source might help viewers make up their mind as to the intentions of those behind the CD that is dished out to them at least a dozen times a day, irrespective of the genuineness of the CD. Particularly so when Varun is harbouring a conspiracy theory. This is analogous to the tendency of both print and electronic media to decry obscenity while showing obscene pictures on the pretext of dealing with the subject, in the process titillating readers and viewers.

    Read the full piece: Media Communalism

    Mar 24, 2009
  • That Familiar Stench: From Guruji To Atalji, Masterji To Varun
    That Familiar Stench: From Guruji To Atalji, Masterji To Varun

    Siddharth Varadarajan in the Hindu:

    The anti-Muslim construct and the threat of violence is a congenital part of the RSS’ philosophical DNA, a genetic flaw so potent that it contaminates anyone who comes into contact with it. Muslims are the enemy around which the edifice of the BJP’s wider politics is built, even if the requirements of legality mean the party has to be guarded in the manner in which it expresses itself. Sometimes, of course, the mask slips, either by carelessness or design. Varun Gandhi is a novice but even a consummate politician like Atal Bihari Vajpayee could occasionally trip up. In a venomous speech at a BJP meeting in Goa in April 2002, shortly after the anti-Muslim violence which shook Gujarat that year started, Mr. Vajpayee, who was Prime Minister at the time, declared: “Wherever Muslims live, they don’t like to live in co-existence with others, they don’t like to mingle with others; and instead of propagating their ideas in a peaceful manner, they want to spread their faith by resorting to terror and threats.”

    Read the full article here

    Mar 24, 2009
  • Sanjay Gandhi: All Resemblances Are Not Coincidental
    Sanjay Gandhi: All Resemblances Are Not Coincidental

    Quick, what's common to Hitler, Sanjay Gandhi and Narendra Modi? Small cars! Frivolity apart, while every now and then comparisons between the Gujarat CM and Rajiv Gandhi are sometimes made (when recalling Gujarat 2002, Delhi 1984 is often invoked), here in the third post on Narendra Modi in recent days, Shiv Visvanathan, in the Indian Express, compares Modi to the younger brother, whose son has been making news for all the wrong reasons:

    If one reads them without blinders, one realises they are two chapters in the history of liberalisation and globalisation. Sanjay inaugurated the privatisation of the state to which Modi added the corporatisation of the state. For both, concepts and ideology were secondary, mere footnotes to the logic of power. Modi is just a later version of Sanjay, a leader with a PRO. Both knew how to cater to middle class vulnerabilities. In Sanjay’s time order came when trains ran on time and clerks reached office before time. For Modi, the disciplined body of the middle class now reacted to words like security and toughness. Both realised that evil, fascism, tyranny becomes possible if one can play on the insecurities of the middle class. 

    Shiv Visvanathan also raises the question that has perhaps not been asked often enough by liberal commentators:

    One often asks why the Congress in Gujarat is silent about riot victims or development? Why is there a sense of the twining of these parties, both built around the middle class as an abstract imagination?

    Read the full article in the Indian Express

    Mar 19, 2009
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  • 'When I Read Rohith Vemula's Letter, I Broke Into Tears,' Says BJP MP Varun Gandhi
    'When I Read Rohith Vemula's Letter, I Broke Into Tears,' Says BJP MP Varun Gandhi
    Feb 22, 2017
  • Defence Secrets Leak Charge Against Me False, Frivolous: Varun Gandhi
    Defence Secrets Leak Charge Against Me False, Frivolous: Varun Gandhi
    Oct 22, 2016
  • No Need for Comments After Varun's Clarification: BJP
    No Need for Comments After Varun's Clarification: BJP
    Oct 21, 2016
  • Varun Gandhi Under Attack Over Allegations of Him Leaking Defence Secrets to Middleman
    Varun Gandhi Under Attack Over Allegations of Him Leaking Defence Secrets to Middleman
    Oct 20, 2016
  • Shatrughan Again Floats Varun Gandhi's Name As BJP's UP Face
    Shatrughan Again Floats Varun Gandhi's Name As BJP's UP Face
    Jun 18, 2016
  • Varun Skips UP BJP MPs' Meet With Shah, War of Words Erupts
    Varun Skips UP BJP MPs' Meet With Shah, War of Words Erupts
    Jun 14, 2016
  • Varun Gandhi Escapes Unhurt After Stage Collapses
    Varun Gandhi Escapes Unhurt After Stage Collapses
    Mar 13, 2016
  • PhD Holders Applying for Peons' Posts in UP: Varun
    PhD Holders Applying for Peons' Posts in UP: Varun
    Feb 27, 2016
  • Poor Turnout at Party Workers' Meet in Ballia Puts Off Varun Gandhi
    Poor Turnout at Party Workers' Meet in Ballia Puts Off Varun Gandhi
    Dec 08, 2015
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    Farmers Have Not Gained Real Freedom: Varun Gandhi
    Sep 04, 2015
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