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Frenzied furore followed a senior Congress leader's " Rashtrapatni" remark
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Frenzied furore followed a senior Congress leader's " Rashtrapatni" remark
Frenzied furore followed a senior Congress leader's " Rashtrapatni" remark
In the Rig Veda, 'grhapatnī’ and ‘grhapati’ are co-eval. The ‘lordship’ or ‘ladyship’ is a relation, jointly, of custodianship, of ‘ruling the household’. If grhapati and grhapatni can be used to signify equal forms of sovereign power within the household, why can rashtrapati and rashtrapatnī not do the same in relation to the state?
The Congress since the commencement of the Monsoon Session of parliament has kept up the pressure on the ruling BJP on the issues of GST, inflation and unemployment. Parliament could not function for more than one week. It was when Congress MPs ...
Days after his controversy for referring to President Droupadi Murmu as 'Rashtrapatni', Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday wrote to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, calling on Union Minister Smriti Irani to issue an "unconditional apology".