{"id":1908,"date":"2018-07-14T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1908"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:05","slug":"shashi-tharoor-summoned-by-court-in-kolkata-for-his-hindu-pakistan-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/shashi-tharoor-summoned-by-court-in-kolkata-for-his-hindu-pakistan-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor summoned by court in Kolkata for his &#8216;Hindu-Pakistan&#8217; remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sessions court in Kolkata\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_211021629\">on Saturday<\/span>\u00a0summoned senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over his controversial &#8216;Hindu-Pakistan&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/shashi-tharoor-says-india-will-become-hindu-pakistan-if-bjp-is-re-elected-bjp-demands-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">remarks\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In his petition, a Kolkata-based advocate Sumeet Chowdhury \u2013 whose Twitter account reads additional P.P, Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Court &amp; Advocate at District Judge Court of Chittagong , Bangladesh \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdvocateSChowd1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">said <\/span><\/a>Tharoor\u2019s remarks had not only hurt religious sentiments but also he grossly insulted the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n<p>The petition further stated that his remarks were intended to create great conflict and disharmony on religious grounds. Chowdhury also mentioned that Tharoor had insulted Indians by comparing such a secular nation with an\u00a0Islamic and extremist state like Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The court also allowed to serve the summon through Tharoor\u2019s official Facebook page apart from following the regular process of law. The MP from Kerala\u2019s Thiruvananthapuram was ordered to appear before the court within\u00a0<span data-term=\"goog_211021630\">August 14<\/span>\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n<p>On July 10, Shashi Tharoor had said that India would become an extremist country like Pakistan if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes back to power in the next year\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sessions court in Kolkata\u00a0on Saturday\u00a0summoned senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor over his controversial &#8216;Hindu-Pakistan&#8217; remarks\u00a0 In his petition, a Kolkata-based advocate Sumeet Chowdhury \u2013 whose Twitter account reads additional P.P, Chittagong Metropolitan Session Judge Court &amp; Advocate at District Judge Court of Chittagong , Bangladesh \u2013 said Tharoor\u2019s remarks had not only hurt religious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1908","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\/1908","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=1908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1908"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}