'That's why they do not pay respect to either Ram or Sita attached to their names. Catch JunoonвЂ™s new entrant Reecha Tripathi spring a surprise with her soulful performance. Theirs is a party based on foreign principles and ideologies,' Modi said. Mumbai, J This week on NDTV Imagine, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has a surprise up his sleeve with a new addition to the Sufi Ke Sultans. The Prestige Makers: Greek Slave Women in Ancient India by Kathryn A. 'The approach of the communists is still understandable. Two articles, one on Nautanki and one on Ramayan Gaan, illustrate that. For example, when Sitaram Yechury, the CPI-M's general secretary, recently said epics like the Ramayan or Mahabharat showed 'even Hindus could be violent', Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to the communist leader's first name in his retort. (The mediation panel has now been granted extra time.)Д«ut as Surendra Singh's remarks show, the Ayodhya case isn't always involved when the Ramayan makes an appearance in poll rhetoric. In March, the Supreme Court ordered court-ordered mediation of the title suit. It is believed by Hindus to be the deity's birthplace, and the BJP has long promised to build a temple there.

The hero of the Ramayan is central to a festering dispute over the ownership of land in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, where the Babri Masjid once stood before it was razed by kar sevaks in 1992.

And no prizes for guessing who, according to him, was Lord Ram: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The MLA, Surendra Singh, cast the demon-king's role too he said Rahul Gandhi was Raavan. If Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was the critic this month, she was the target in January, when, soon after she formally entered politics, a BJP lawmaker called her Surpanakha - the sister of Raavan, the Ramayan's villain. She is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, but the BJP says she was framed. Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur is the BJP's candidate in Bhopal, where she has been fielded against veteran Congressman Digvijaya Singh.

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