Swami Agnivesh News
The tweet which is no longer available because it violated the Twitter Rules read, "Good riddance @swamiagnivesh. You were an anti-Hindu donning saffron clothes. You did enormous damage to Hinduism. I am ashamed that you were born as a Telugu Brahmin. Lion in sheep clothes. My grievance against Yamaraj is why did he wait this long."
Sonia Gandhi said that Swami Agnivesh was the "most powerful and effective voice for the vulnerable and the defenceless".
Swami Agnivesh passed away on Friday at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in Delhi. He was suffering from liver cirrhosis and was critically ill.
Arya Samaj leader Swami Agnivesh died on Friday at the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences in the national capital.
He was suffering from liver cirrhosis and was critically ill.
The Arya Samaj leader was on ventilatory support since September 8 due to multi-organ failure.
The Supreme Court Friday dismissed social activist Swami Agnivesh's plea seeking minimum wages for around 50 crore workers in the unorganised sector.
Social activist Swami Agnivesh was on Friday abused and thrashed outside the BJP headquarters when he went there to pay tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose body was lying in state for people to pay homage.
Coming down heavily on the BJP led government at the Centre, the Congress veteran claimed that communal violence and killing in the name of cow vigilantism had increased in the last four years.
Swami Agnivesh's statement came while he was addressing a seminar in Thiruvananthapuram on 'Standing up to hatred; Violence and intolerance in contemporary India'.
Speaking at a seminar, Shashi Tharoor targetted PM Modi and accused him of not taking opportunities to reassure the country after incidents of violence.
Speaking to news agency ANI, Agnivesh said that no enquiry nor any arrest has been made after the incident took place. He indicated that the matter is being brushed under the carpet and so he has no option but to go to the apex court.
Swami Agnivesh was allegedly beaten up for his 'anti-Hindu' stance on Tuesday.
The Congress chief tweeted a day after social activist Swami Agnivesh was physically and verbally abused in Jharkhand's Pakur town by a mob.
Swami Agnivesh was beaten up allegedly for his 'anti-Hindu' stance.
Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, social activists Medha Patkar, Swami Agnivesh and JNUSU president Mohit Kumar Pandey were detained by the police on Sunday when they were trying to enter restive Mandsaur district in Madhya Pradesh to meet the deceased farmers` kin.
In such a scenario, a case of treason should also be filed against PDP, Swami Agnivesh claimed.
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