{"id":1713,"date":"2018-07-06T13:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T08:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:06","slug":"look-at-my-happy-face-comment-made-by-tripura-cm-leads-to-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/look-at-my-happy-face-comment-made-by-tripura-cm-leads-to-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Look at my happy face&#8221; comment made by Tripura CM leads to controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Despite three people being killed in past eight days &#8212; on\u00a0the basis of &#8220;suspicion\u201d of being child abductors, in\u00a0Tripura &#8212; chief minister Biplab Deb shockingly avoided the issue of brutal lynchings when he was asked about the incidents. Instead Deb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/asked-about-lynchings-tripura-cm-biplab-deb-says-look-at-my-face-i-am-so-happy\/story-zbtqrwIplX1SqsD8RTvpCP.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">advised<\/span> <\/a>the reporter to stay happy and asked him to look at his delighted face.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He said a sense of happiness is prevailing in the state and every person is happy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Later <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_149434780\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> evening, the Tripura government claimed Deb&#8217;s comment was quoted out of context and that he had actually said it when asked about the newly-renamed airport in Agartala.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Over the past few days, a number of incidents of lynching have taken place owing to\u00a0rumours of child abduction\u00a0across India including Tripura. An anti-rumour campaigner was beaten to death during a campaign in Tripura&#8217;s Kalacherra on June 28. A garment hawker from Uttar Pradesh in West Tripura district and a woman in Sepahijala district were also killed on the basis of similar suspicion.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite three people being killed in past eight days &#8212; on\u00a0the basis of &#8220;suspicion\u201d of being child abductors, in\u00a0Tripura &#8212; chief minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}