The 131th foundation day of the Congress had a major embarrassment in store for its leadership as the party’s mouthpiece ‘Congress Darshan’ in its articles not only held India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru squarely responsible for the present anarchic situation in Kashmir, but also tried to connect party president Sonia Gandhi’s family to the Fascist dispensation of the 1930s in Italy.
The content editor of the magazine Sudhir Joshi has been sacked after the controversy that has broken out. The Mumbai-based magazine apparently scored a self-goal similar to the magazine Panchajanya when the latter had published an interview of its chief Mohan Bhagwat that created a controversy on reservation ahead of the Bihar assembly polls. That interview had quoted Bhagwat pitching for a review of the reservation policy.
Interestingly, in the cases of the ‘Congress Darshan’ and ‘Panchjanya’ goof-ups, there’s a common factor –Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam, who is also the editor-in-chief of the Congress mouth-piece. The Indian Express reports on the fierce infighting within the Mumbai Congress unit.....................................Read more
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