PM Narendra Modi upbraids 26-party INDIA alliance of Opposition parties,

PM Narendra Modi upbraids
26-party INDIA alliance of Opposition parties,

PM Narendra Modi upbraid
the 26-party INDIA alliance of Opposition parties, saying that even the East India Company “that looted the country” and terrorist outfits such as the
BJP brings Father of Nation
A O Hume’s name
as founders of Indian National Congress, Indian Civil Service officer and notable botanist known as Father of Indian Ornithology, amidst ‘INDIA’ row.

Hume quit following differences with British administration, and believed there was rising discontent among the masses against British rule.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday upbraid
the 26-party INDIA alliance of Opposition parties, saying that even the East India Company “that looted the country” and terrorist outfits such as the Indian Mujahideen, as well as the banned Popular Front of India had ‘India’ in their names, BJP MP Nishikant Dubey joined in saying the Indian National Congress too had foreign links, considering it was founded by an Englishman, A O Hume.

Notably, Allan Octavian Hume was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer who played a crucial role in the founding of the Congress.

According to the Union Government’s Ministry of Culture website, apart being a political reformer, he was also a notable botanist, and came to be acknowledged as the “Father of Indian Ornithology” and the “Pope of Indian Ornithology.

Born to Joseph Hume in June 1829, an East India Company official who spent several years in India and went on to become an MP. Hume tried his hand at the Navy before entering the Bengal Civil Service in 1849.

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