#INDIA: Opposition Accuses PM Modi Of "Hate Speech" In Election Year

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Indian opposition leaders have criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi's latest remarks, which they say were aimed at Muslims, a minority group in largely Hindu India.

Modi said the main opposition Congress Party wanted to distribute people's wealth to "infiltrators" and "those who have many children." Congress denies the accusation. India is in the middle of a 7-phase nation election.

He didn’t directly say he was talking about minorities, but added that the Congress Party believed Muslims had the first right over the nation's wealth. A former Congress Party PM said something similar to this while telling a Muslim crowd they were also entitled to the nation's wealth, too. Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (PJP) leans Right, and is largely Hindu fundamentalist in character. 

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#INDIA: Largest Election Underway For New Parliament

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Indians bin voting today to choose their next parliament in the first of seven voting days that end on June 1. Nearly a billion people are eligible to cast their ballot.Prime Minister Narendra Modi is aiming for a rare third consecutive term in power.

Several key opposition parties, including the Congress, have formed an alliance in many states to take on Modi’s party. Main issues include a jobs crisis, rising prices, a crackdown on dissents and the opposition and the politics of religion. Results will be announced on June 4.

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#INDIA: PM Modi Scraps Controversial Farming Legislation After Year-Long Protests

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India’s Parliament has voted to scrap agricultural reform laws that sparked a year of huge protests by farmers, after a surprise U-turn by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Tens of thousands of farmers have been camped out on the outskirts of the capital New Delhi for more than a year – one of the biggest challenges to Modi’s Hindu nationalist government since he came to power in 2014.

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#INDIA: Yoga Guru Says Failure To Do Yoga Cost Opposition Leader Gandhi's Party Election

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A national yoga guru has attributed the Opposition National Congress Party's drubbing in the recent legislative elections to party president Rahul Gandhi failing to practising yoga.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev is preparing to celebrate International Yoga Day on June 21.

Ramdev praised Prime Minister Narenda Modi for his daily yoga practice. But Modi didn't join in the attacks, instead wishing Gandhi a happy birthday in a gracious tweet, that read, "Best wishes to Shri @RahulGandhi on his birthday. May he be blessed with good health and a long life."

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#INDIA: PM Modi, BJP Party, Win Landslide Victory, Five More Years

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has thanked the people of India for giving him a "historic mandate" of five more years in office, after a landslide victory in the general election for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

 The BJP is projected to get about 300 of the 543 seats in parliament. It is likely to take a larger share of the vote than in the 2014 elections. The main opposition alliance, which is headed by Rahul Gandhi's Congress party, has admitted defeat.

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#INDIA: Congress Party Pres. Rahul Gandhi Says He'd Have Junked Rollout Of Demonetization; Rips Modi's Policies

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On a trip to Malaysia, Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi criticized PM Narenda Modi's policy of demonetization, which removed high-value banknotes from circulation. Asked how he would have rolled out the policy differently, he said, "If I was the Prime Minister and somebody had given me a file with 'demonetization' written on it, I would thrown it in the dustbin," he continued to say he would have "rolled it out through door and into the junkyard." Congress Party blames the policy for an economic slowdown.

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#INDIA: PM Modi Backs An Independent Palestine During Historic Ramallah Visit

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Indian PM Narendra Modi is visiting the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on a landmark visit - the first ever by an Indian prime minister. After holding talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Prime Minister Modi said India hoped to see an independent Palestinian state through dialogue.

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#INDIA: Cabinet Reshuffle Brings India Its Second Woman Defense Minister

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Nirmala Sitharaman, who just took oath as the new Cabinet member, has been given the Defense Ministry portfolio, becoming first dedicated woman defense minister of India and only the second woman to hold the crucial ministry after Indira Gandhi. Modi, in his third Cabinet reshuffle, swore in 13 new ministers.

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#INDIA: PM Modi Says Disruptions In Parliament Make Debate Impossible

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has hit out at the Opposition for disrupting Parliament and not letting him speak on the issue of the demonetisation of the nation's currency. "Parliament is not being allowed to function," he said, in a recent open-air rally. The Prime Minister has come under fire over his silence on the issue in Parliament. The Opposition is demanding that the Prime Minister's speak in the House during debate on this issue, in which the government has banned large-denomination banknotes.

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#INDIA: Oppo. VP Rahul Gandhi Calls For Bribery Investigation Of PM Modi

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Opposition Congress Party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi has demanded an investigation into allegations that two Indian conglomerates paid millions of rupees in bribes to the prime minister Narendra Modi when he was chief minister of Gujarat. Gandhi said the allegations dating between 2013-14 were found in diary notes and computer records of the Sahara Group and the Birla Group and were in the possession of income tax authorities.

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#INDIA: PM Says India Won't Attend Conference In Pakistan, Cites Terror Concerns

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says he won't attend a November conference in Pakistan, citing terrorism concerns in the region. Modi's government blames "cross-border terror attacks"  for creating an environment that is "not conducive" for the meeting of the eight-nation group. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation may have to be relocated from Islamabad after Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Bhutan also signaled that they will not attend the meeting.

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Pictured: Indian PM Narenda Modi, right, Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif, left.

#INDIA: Cabinet Approves PM Modi's Plan For State Bank Of India To Take Over Five Smaller Banks

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet has approved the takeover by State Bank of India of several subsidiaries, a government source said, in a first move to consolidate the country's struggling public sector banks.

#SAUDIARABIA: Gov't Tilting Towards India After Pakistan Snub Of Saudi War In Yemen

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Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud gave Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi a very warm welcome last weekend in a public tilt of Saudi policy toward New Delhi and away from its traditional ally Pakistan. Economic interests are part of the tilt, but so too is Saudi pique at Pakistan's refusal to back its military adventure in Yemen.

#INDIA: Facing Attacks For Lack of "Tolerance," PM Says "India" Is His Only "Religion" & "Constitution" Is His "Holy Book"

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Addressing his commitment to consensus and secular government in a land often torn by religious disputes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said 'India first' is the only religion of his government and the "Constitution" is its only holy book. Modi has faced attacks recently for not speaking out more against religious intolerance. He heads  the government of the Hindu Nationalist BJP party.

#INDIA: Congress Pty Charges #BJP Gov't With Frequent "U-Turns" in Policy

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Charging the Narendra Modi government with "U-Turns" in policies, the Congress Party has released a 30-page booklet accusing it of "umpteen somersaults" on a range of promises. It says the Prime Minister and his government have gone back on virtually every campaign pledge, "with a U-turn every week."

#INDIA: Pakistan PM Sharif Attends Indian PM Nodi's Inauguration, Speaks of Peace

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#INDIA: BJP wins Landslide Victory Over Congress Party

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Preliminary results show the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and it's partners taking 333 seats to the Ruling Congress Party's coalition earning only 61.

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High Turnout Reported in Round 7 of National Election [world politics news]

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BJP's Modi Seen As Longshot for PM; BJP Unlikely to Have Seats to Form Gov't [world politics news]

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Cabinet Minister Likens BJP Party PM Candidate Modi to Hitler, Third Reich [world politics news]

Jairam Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress Party

Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Jairam Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Jairam Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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Jairam Ramesh, a senior cabinet minister close to the leadership of the Congress party

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