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July 30, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
The BJP’s Anurag Thakur – who gained notoriety during 2020 for exhorting a crowd of party supporters to “shoot the traitors” – shocked parliament today by describing Rahul Gandhi as a person “whose caste is not known”. Thakur’s attempt too attack the Congress leader for advocating a caste census backfired, and his casteist comment was later expunged from the proceedings.
Citing the aggressive official pushback a recent Citi Group report on the Indian
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