Dividing India?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 19/03/2018

Times Now's daily harangue against the Congress Party got fresh grist with Karnataka's Congress government declaring Lingayats as a separate religion. Anchor Rahul Shivshankar took personal credit for his channel not having been taken in by Rahul Gandhi's speech at the Congress plenary on Saturday claiming that the Congress would unify the country. A poll was duly presented:What do you think about the Congress? Unites India: 25 percent. Divides India: 75 percent. Now there's a channel the BJP can always count on.

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Let the games begin

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