A day after outgoing Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari said that there was unease and a sense of insecurity among Muslims in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he (Ansari) would be free to pursue his "core thinking" once he demits office.

As reported earlier, on the last day of his 10-year tenure as the Vice-President of India, Ansari was pilloried on social media by Sangh Parivar affiliates for his comment that there was unease among minorities as the “ambience of acceptance” was now under threat. In Parliament, when the Rajya ...