Amid the raging Sengol row, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on May 28 said the positions taken by the government and the Opposition on the issue are reconcilable, as he called for embracing this symbol from the past to affirm the values of our present.
His remarks come amid a war of words between the Congress and the BJP over the history of the Sengol with Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying it was a symbol of the transfer of power from the British in 1947 and should have gotten its due respect after Independence but was kept on display as a "walking stick" at Anand Bhawan in Prayagraj.
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