Death blow to scholarship: Congress on action against CPR

Congress on Wednesday slammed government's decision to cancel Centre for Policy Research's FCRA licence and said such action will serve as a "death blow to India's rich tradition of scholarship and rigorous thought". The chairman of All India Professionals' Congress, Praveen Chakravarty said it was a "shame" that the government of India should be "so timid to feel bullied by a group of scholars and their research", referring to the cancellation of CPR's FCRA licence as an extraordinarily petty act of cowardice.

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