NEW DELHI: BJP leader Varun Gandhi, who recently triggered a controversy by his hate-speech, said that people should know him by his work rather than his Gandhi tag. "People ask me that I am from the Gandhi family and so how do I feel. I tell everyone that I want to be known by my work, not by my name. I want to be seen as 'Gandhi by work', not 'Gandhi by name'," he said. Mr. Gandhi was addressing an election meeting at Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh. He is contesting Lok Sabha election on a BJP ticket from the Pilibhit constituency in Uttar Pradesh. The 29-year-old BJP leader had run into a controversy after he delivered a hate-speech against Muslims during a public meeting in Pilibhit on March 7. He was later arrested after being booked under the NSA.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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