“There is no room in India for the intolerant Indian,” President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday, joining the ‘national vs anti-national’ debate. Without naming Kaur, Mukherjee said that he does not consider a society or State to be civilised if its citizens’ behaviour towards women is uncivilised. The President reminded that India has always been a “bastion of free thought, speech and expression”. For those espousing violence, the President said: “Remember Buddha, Ashoka and Akbar are remembered as heroes in history, not Hitler or Genghis Khan. On Thursday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley also joined the nationalism debate, saying that there was a “conscious attempt” by a section to “make it appear that nationalism is a bad word”.

Source: dna March 03, 2017 01:04 UTC