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Rahul Gandhi is following Aurangzeb, Khalji in Gujarat: BJP

Launching a scathing attack on Rahul Gandhi over his visits to temples in poll-bound Gujarat, senior BJP leader GVL Narasimha Rao today accused him of following in the footsteps of medieval sultans like Alauddin Khalji and Aurangzeb. "Aurangzeb (a Mughal emperor) had destroyed many temples during his rule. However, when the common people opposed him, he promised to build two-three temples. Alauddin Khalji did the same...And now Rahul Gandhi is going in the same direction," Rao said. Talking to reporters, Rao termed as "good" the proposal of the Uttar Pradesh Shia Waqf Board on resolving the Ayodhya issue and asked Gandhi to clarify the party's stand by breaking his "silence". "Gandhi's visits to temples is a drama. Gandhi is trying to mislead the people by embarking on temple visits, which has become a compulsion for the Congress vice president in view of the elections," the BJP leader said. He also asked the Congress to explain how its
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EPS-OPS is the real AIADMK, EC gives camp 'two leaves' symbol: Verdict reminiscent of 1988 tussle between Jayalalithaa-Janaki

What might come as a setback for V Sasikala, who is currently lodged in a Bengaluru prison, the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared that the 'two-leaves' party symbol belonged to the E Palaniswamy and O Panneerselvam faction and not the VK Sasikala-TTV Dinakaran camp. The verdict was happily welcomed by the EPS-OPS faction. With the EC restoring the "two leaves" symbol for the ruling faction of the AIADMK, the Palaniswamy-Panneerselvam faction is now the officially recognised AIADMK. The entire drama, as it unfolded since the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year, is reminiscent of how MG Ramachandran's widow Janaki Ramachandran and Jayalalithaa sparred to control AIADMK after MGR's death in 1988. They too, like EPS-OPS and Sasikala, fought over who should use the AIADMK symbol.The entire drama, as it unfolded since the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in December last year, is reminisce
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