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New Delhi: The 15-year alliance between the ruling Naga People’s Front (NPF) and BJP is not over yet, according to Nagaland chief minister TR Zeliang. 

NPF has not closed its doors to BJP despite the two parties are fighting the election as rivals, he added.

“The trust between the two parties is still there. I have a minister from BJP (P Paiwang Konyak) who is still a part of my cabinet and an adviser from BJP (TN Lotha) in the rank of a cabinet minister,” Zeliang said after launching NPF’s campaign. 

New Delhi: AIMIM chief AsaduddinOwaisihas hit back at those who question the patriotism of Muslims as he referred to five Armymen from Kashmir who made supreme sacrifice while fighting Pakistani terrorists at Sunjuwan in Jammu.

The Hyderabad MP also attacked the government for "not learning lessons" from terror attacks on army installations in the past.

The so-called "9 pm" nationalists (those who appear in prime time tv debates) question the nationalism of Muslims and Kashmiri Muslims, Owaisi said here.

New Delhi: Union minister Uma Bharti assertedthat former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought RSS assistance when Pakistan attacked Jammu and Kashmir soon after independence and Sangh volunteers had gone there to help.

Her claim comes amid the controversy over RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat's reported remarks on the Army.

While speaking to reporters in Bhopal, Bharti refused to make a direct comment on Bhagwat's remarks.

New Delhi:  Laying blame on RSS for trying to "capture" every institution in the country, Congress President Rahul Gandhi has said it was a "particular ideologue" of the SanghParivar outfit who gave the idea of the note ban to the Prime Minister.

"Do you know where the idea of note bandi (note ban) came from? Do you know who gave the idea of note bandi to the Prime Minister of India? It was not RBI, it was not ArunJaitley (Finance Minister), it was not an officer in the Finance Ministry," Gandhi said.

"It was a particular ideologue of the RSS.Now you imagine the RSS places an idea into the Prime Minister's mind and the Prime Minister launches that idea," he said.