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Safer to be a cow than a Muslim in India, says Shashi Tharoor

4:07 pm: Hate at home and Make in India abroad cannot go hand in hand, says Shashi Tharoor.

4:05 pm: Safer to be a cow than a Muslim in India, says Shashi Tharoor.

4:03 pm: Kerala House raid was conducted at a time when African delegation was in India, what would they have thought about the intolerance in the country, says Shashi Tharoor.

4:00 pm: Congress MP Shashi Tharoor addresses Lok Sabha, says Indian was built on the premise of respecting diversity.

3:45 pm: Kirron Kher: My husband Anupam Kher was censor board chief during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s time but he was immediately removed when UPA came into power.

3:44 pm: Kirron Kher: There is a paradigm shift in how India is being perceived these days. Attempts are being made to malign the image of the ruling party as that is the easiest way to defame it.

3:42 pm: Kirron Kher: We need to find the motive behind such ’fabricated’ protests on ’intolerance’, says BJP’s Kirron Kher

11:22 am: Kiren Rijiju: Not a fair thing to say that communal incidents have increased in regions where there is a majority of BJP’s presence. Security is an issue that has to be taken care of by both the State and the Centre.

11:20 am: Kiren Rijiju: Government not planning to form any committee to collectively investigate the incidents of communal violence across the country.

11:15 am: Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju: The number of incidents of communal violence has considerably gone down under NDA. In 2015, there have been 4 communal incidents till October. I do not want to talk of the details of all the communal incidents under UPA.

11:10 am: Modi is likely to respond on the intolerance row in Rajya Sabha at around 2PM, say sources

11:05 am: Uproar in Lok Sabha during debate on intolerance

11:00 am: Both Houses of Parliament resume

10:56 am: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Venkaiah Naidu said we should be careful with words and should steer clear from controversies.

10:55 am: BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi: Discussed recently concluded state polls and also discussed political debates on intolerance issue in the parliamentary party meet.

A day after a heated debate took place on the intolerance row in Parliament, more uproar is likely in both Houses on Tuesday as the Opposition is expected to stick to the debate on the raging issue.

During the discussions on Monday, Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Mohd Salim recalled a newspaper article which stated that Home Minister Rajnath Singh allegedly said that India has got a ’Hindu ruler’ after 800 years, following Narendra Modi’s victory.

Visibly hurt by Salim’s comments, Rajnath lashed out at him and refuted making any such remarks. "He has put a serious allegation on me. I would want to ask him where I have made such remarks on Hindu leader comments or else apologise," he said.

Singh claimed that he was "deeply hurt" by the allegations that Mohd Salim had levelled against him. "A Home Minister making such a statement has no right to continue being on the post," Singh said.

Clarifying his remarks, Mohd Salim claimed that he quoted the statement from a magazine. "If Rajnath Singh is denying then let him send a legal notice to the publication," he said.