"Owners of bullock carts in villages, create a wound on the back of the ox and when they want their bullock-carts to move faster they strike at the wound. Similarly, these disputes are wounds and marks of slavery on our ‘Bharat Mata’. So long as ‘Gyan Vapi’ continues in its present condition at Banaras and a grave remains in a temple at Pavagarh, it will remind us of the atrocities perpetrated by Aurangzeb including his efforts to convert Hindus to Islam and this would be very painful."
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Quoted from Vikram Sampath - Waiting for Shiva, Unearthing the Truth of Kashi's Gyan Vapi-BluOne Ink (2024)
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Uma Bharti
Uma Bharti (born 3 May 1959) is an Indian politician belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party and former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. Bharti held various state-level and cabinet-level portfolios in the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Tourism, Youth Affairs and Sports, and also in Coal and Mines during the Second Vajpayee ministry as well as Third Vajpayee ministry ministry of Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee. After Narendra Modi became the Indian Prime Minister in 2014, she w
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