We have enough legends, stories and texts to justify and praise the Kashi project. I only hope that the effort to reduce dirt and debris is taken up at other sites as well.
With the inauguration of Kashi Vishwanath Dham by PM Modi in Varanasi, BJP’s ‘Kashi project’ is almost complete, and so is the invisibilisation of Gyanvapi mosque.
PM Modi is on a two-day visit to Varanasi, which is also his Lok Sabha constituency. He inaugurated Kashi Vishwanath corridor Monday, weeks before UP polls.
PM Modi will inaugurate Rs 800-cr Kashi-Vishwanath corridor today. With eye on 2022 polls, the BJP plans to organise 30 programmes in Varanasi in a month.
A pet project of the PM, the much larger Kashi Vishwanath complex can now hold nearly 75,000 people. It’s also a key project for the Yogi Adityanath govt ahead of UP elections.
Statue was smuggled out of India by Norman MacKenzie, a Canadian lawyer and arts patron, in 1913. It was handed to Indian envoy to Canada last year but pandemic delayed its return.
Like Turkey and Egypt, Pakistan is one of a handful of powers with the human resources and infrastructure to help secure the Persian Gulf as Trump’s America draws down its military presence.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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