Newly elected West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya being felicitated by party leader Locket Chatterjee as party MP Ravi Shankar Prasad looks on during an event, in Kolkata
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After two decades, Uddhav and Raj on Saturday shared the public stage and hosted a victory gathering, titled 'Awaj Marathicha' in Mumbai's Worli area, to celebrate the rollback of two Government Resolutions (GRs) issued earlier by the Devendra Fadnavis-led dispensation introducing Hindi as a third language from Class 1 in state schools.
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