Sengol row | Congress kept a sacred symbol as ‘walking stick’, says Amit Shah

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Home Minister Amit Shah launched a sharp attack on the Congress on May 26, asking why it hated Indian traditions and kept a sacred symbol as a walking stick..

Mr. Shah was responding to Congress leader Jairam Rameshs claim that there was no documented evidence of Indias first Governor-General Lord Louis Mountbatten, its last Governor-General C..

A sacred Sengol was given to Pandit Nehru by a holy Saivite Mutt from Tamil Nadu to symbolise Indias freedom but it was banished to a museum as a walking stick, Mr. Shah said...

Amid the war of words between the BJP and the Congress over Sundays inauguration of the new Parliament building, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will install the Sengol, Mr. Shah added that the Opposition party needs to reflect on its behaviour...

Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal took to Twitter to criticise the Opposition party, saying that unlike the dynasty that demeaned the Sengol by displaying it as one persons walking stick, Mr. Modi was restoring its glory by giving it a pride of place in the new Parliament building..

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