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LINE OF OFFENCE

The ruling BJP government at the Centre has had a week it would like to forget as it scrambled to put out the fires lit internationally in the Muslim world by the comments against the Prophet by some of its top leaders. The party has suspended national spokesperson Nupur Sharma and expelled the Delhi BJP’s media cell chief Naveen Kumar Jindal, the two at the centre of the fiasco, calling them “fringe elements”. On June 8, Delhi Police also filed an FIR against the two and a few others saying their social media posts could

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