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In 1957, India adopted the Saka calendar as its official calendar

Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan on Tuesday hosted a lunch for all members of Parliament (MP) on the occasion of Nutan Samvatsar, or what the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has come to call “Hindu-Bharatiya New Year”. No MP could remember if the Speaker, or any other occupant of a high constitutional post, had in the past ever officially marked the Vikram Samvat new year. A member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said the effort was to give official sanction to the Samvat calendar as a “Hindu calendar”, even when it does not find acceptance in several parts of