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Secularism

News Reports

‘Don’t teach us Secularism, Hindus respect all but won’t allow some Babar to capture our Mandir under the grab of Secularism:’ Himanta Biswa Sarma

OpIndia Staff - 19 October, 2023

Assam CM and BJP leader Himanta Biswa Sarma while addressing a rally in polll-bound Chhattisgarh, tore into the Congress Party saying the grand old party should not teach secularism to the BJP

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Rahul Gandhi says Muslim League, an off-shoot of Jinnah’s party, is ‘completely secular’: Here is what he said, the brief history of IUML and...

OpIndia Staff - 2 June, 2023

Rahul Gandhi in Washington said that the Muslim League, which played a vital role in partition of India on religious lines, was "completely secular".

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CM Siddaramaiah thanks 40 writers for taking a stand against BJP, promises to protect ‘secular heritage’ by ensuring ‘education is not adulterated’ by NEP

ANI - 30 May, 2023

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday promised the writers that the act of polluting children's minds through texts and lessons cannot be condoned

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Saraswati puja denied but Iftar allowed in Presidency University? BJP alleges discrimination after TMC had protested earlier: What we know

OpIndia Staff - 6 April, 2023

Presidency University in Kolkata has never allowed Saraswati Puja to be celebrated on campus, but its hostel have organised both the puja and Iftar

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‘India is secular because Hindus are the majority’: Old video of Atal Bihari Vajpayee giving befitting reply to Javed Akhtar goes viral

OpIndia Staff - 23 March, 2023

"Once Pakistan was formed, the Hindu majority did not seek an exclusivist Hindu Raj with no place for minorities," Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said.

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AAP-friendly musician Vishal Dadlani claims the preamble of the Constitution of India that BR Ambedkar wrote had ‘secular’ word in it, here is the...

OpIndia Staff - 26 January, 2023

Vishal Dadlani thinks BR Ambedkar wrote 'secular' term in the preamble of the Constitution of India

Opinions

From ‘hospital in place of Ram Mandir’ to wearing Hindu identity on sleeve: Hindutva as response to Left Liberal and deep Nehruvian State

varun07 - 29 June, 2022

Hindutva essentially means “Hindu + Tattva” which roughly translates as “soul and existence of Hinduism”. In today’s time we consider Hindutva as Hinduism which resists.

Opinions

The slippery slope of blasphemy laws

Saket Suryesh - 9 June, 2022

But if a stringent blasphemy law is needed, so be it, as long as it comes in after judicial reforms. Law that acts arbitrarily is no law.

News Reports

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan says CAA ‘against secular fabric of the nation’, will not be implemented in the state

OpIndia Staff - 3 June, 2022

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan stated at a gathering that his government will not implement the CAA.

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Times of India gives a platform to paedophilia-accused British journo Hasan Suroor to mouth platitudes on ‘secularism’ over Gyanvapi

OpIndia Staff - 31 May, 2022

Hassan Suroor had allegedly sent sexually explicit messages to a 14-year-old girl during a sting operation set up by an anti-paedophile group called Unknown TV.

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