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  BJP minister Satyapal Singh courts controversy by calling for ban on immersion of ashes in Ganga

  India | Dec 20, 2017, 01:18 PM IST

  Singh, who was in Haridwar on Tuesday to inaugurate 34 projects related to Namami Ganga mission, argued that it was not important to immerse flowers or ashes in the Ganga to fulfil religious duty.

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  PM Narendra Modi calls for making rejuvenation of Ganga a mass movement

  India | Sep 12, 2014, 07:18 AM IST

  New Delhi: Emphasising on the need to make Ganga rejuvenation a mass movement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the first priority of this mission should be to stop fresh generation of pollutants.Chairing the first