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Stop Children’s Day celebrations on Nehru birthday: Raja Singh

Following the renaming of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Na... Read More
HYDERABAD: Following the renaming of Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by the Narendra Modi government after hockey legend Major Dhyanchand, Goshamahal BJP MLA Raja Singh has now requested the Centre to stop commemorating Children’s Day on November 14th.

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Children’s Day is held on the date as a tribute to the birthday of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the late ex-PM Rajiv Gandhi’s grandfather. Raja Singh said that instead the Centre should celebrate Children’s Day in honour of Guru Govind Singh’s sons who sacrificed their lives for the sake of society.

Commending the Centre for replacing Rajiv’s name with Dhyanchand for the highest sports award in the country, the Goshamahal MLA said, “This is a very positive development.”

BJP will win next

Telangana polls

: Bhagwanth Khuba

Union minister of state for fertilizers and chemicals Bhagwanth Khuba on Sunday said that the Telangana BJP would win the next elections. He told the party’s rank and file at the BJP office that the party’s recent performance in the Dubbak and GHMC polls was an indication of what was to come. On Monday, the minister will visit the fertiliser factory in

Ramagundam

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