Mahatma Gandhi  

Women in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore helped Naganadhi river get a second chance at life. The women registered under the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Act scheme (MNREGA) have revived the river at a time when most parts of Tamil Nadu are reeling under severe water crisis.

The prime minister visited Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi, around 7 am. Later, he went to Sadaiv Atal, the lotus-shaped memorial of former prime minister Vajpayee.

Congress leader Abdullakutty commended the Centre’s Swacch Bharat Abhiyaan and Ujjwala Yojana, saying that they led the country towards progress and empowered the poor man.

During an event in Chennai, actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan referred to Mahatma Gandhi as a ‘superstar’ and called him his hero.

 BJP president Amit Shah was seen unhappy with the party leader's comment on Nathuram Godse and said that they have to appear before the disciplinary committee and explain the reason behind their statements.

Haasan had on May 12 said, “I am not saying this because many Muslims are here, I am saying this in front of Mahatma Gandhi’s statue. The first terrorist in independent India is a Hindu, his name is Nathuram Godse.”

In a campaigning speech in Tamil Nadu, Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) chief Kamal Haasan had made a controversial statement. Kamal had said that the country's ‘first terrorist was a Hindu’ referring to Nathuram Godse, who killed Mahatma Gandhi

Sivakasi MLA representing AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, KT Rajenthra Bhalaji, said that Kamal Haasan's tongue must be cut off for terming Nathuram Godse as first Hindu terrorist of the country

Kamal Haasan, founder of the Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) has said that India’s first terrorist was a Hindu, pointing his fingers at Nathuram Godse, the assassinator of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation
 

Tagore’s differences with even Mahatma Gandhi in this respect are the centre of animated and celebrated scholarship.

“I want to tell them there is an expression in English ‘slip of tongue’…I wanted to say Maulana Azad, but what came out of my mouth was Mohammad Ali Jinnah,” Sinha said on Saturday

Former BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha said that Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who created Pakistan, belongs to the Congress family along with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru

Ambedkar inverted Mahatma Gandhi's economic vision. Gandhi wanted the villages to stay as the nodal points of economic activity, but Ambedkar felt that villages as centres of economic activities nurtured caste exploitation.

Gandhi didn't stop at that. She went on, "Because employment is a negotiation after all, isn’t it? We are not Mahatma Gandhi’s children to keep giving without getting anything in return.”
 

Left without employment, the former KSRTC conductors lay on the busy Mahatma Gandhi Road in front of the secretariat and covered themselves with a white cloth, in a symbolic protest over the mass termination of employees.