No room for anti-India activism: Union minister

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said there was no room for anti-India activism in the country and those indulging in it for short-term publicity were in fact alluded by a false sense of self-righteousness and unreal intellectual pretensions.

He also said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a diligent and sincere effort was made over the last five years to create a model of state-nation that combined an optimum mix of the basic Indian ethos and a progressive vision for the future.

"There is no room for anti-India activism and those indulging in it for short-term publicity are in fact alluded by a false sense of self-righteousness and unreal intellectual pretensions," the minister said while releasing a series of books written on different eras in ancient India.

Referring to the situation prevailing in the country, Singh, without naming anyone, said in journalistic parlance, there was a proverb that "a dog bites a man is no news, but if a man bites a dog, that is news".

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