{"id":1838,"date":"2018-07-12T13:04:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T07:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:05","slug":"shashi-tharoor-says-india-will-become-hindu-pakistan-if-bjp-is-re-elected-bjp-demands-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/shashi-tharoor-says-india-will-become-hindu-pakistan-if-bjp-is-re-elected-bjp-demands-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor says India will become \u201cHindu Pakistan\u201d if BJP is re-elected, BJP demands apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_725140058\">on Tuesday<\/span>\u00a0said India will become an extremist country like Pakistan if Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is back in power in the next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>At an event in his Lok Shobha constituency, Kerala\u2019s Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor said BJP will rewrite the Constitution in their own way and make India intolerant. He said the Constitution would include hardcore principles of Hindu Rashtra.<\/p>\n<p>Tharoor added that the BJP will try to create a \u201cHindu Pakistan\u201d which wouldn\u2019t follow the ideologies of India for what Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana Azad struggled during Independence.<\/p>\n<p>BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said Congress president Rahul Gandhi should apologise for such a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0said India will become an extremist country like Pakistan if Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is back in power in the next year\u2019s general election. At an event in his Lok Shobha constituency, Kerala\u2019s Thiruvananthapuram, Tharoor said BJP will rewrite the Constitution in their own way and make India intolerant. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","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=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}