{"id":2690,"date":"2018-09-10T18:22:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:00","slug":"mamata-banerjee-asks-people-to-be-cautious-about-fake-news-during-durga-puja-and-muharram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/mamata-banerjee-asks-people-to-be-cautious-about-fake-news-during-durga-puja-and-muharram\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee asks people to be cautious about fake news during Durga Puja and Muharram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that some groups were constantly trying to cause riots through mischievous means and fake news in various parts of the state, and people must be especially cautious about this during the coming festive season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are trying to inflame public feelings. But remember, if there is fire, it will burn all of us,\u201d she said at a meeting with Durga Puja organisers. \u201cWe won\u2019t let that happen here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banerjee said that people must display harmony and solidarity and not let fake news affect them. \u201cDon\u2019t let people mislead you through social media messages,\u201d she said, asking people to confirm and clarify every message before believing in them.<\/p>\n<p>The CM announced that Durga Puja immersion will be held between October 19 and 22. The immersion carnival \u2013 along Kolkata&#8217;s Red Road where a number of puja committees participate \u2013 will be held on October 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that some groups were constantly trying to cause riots through mischievous means and fake news in various parts of the state, and people must be especially cautious about this during the coming festive season. \u201cThey are trying to inflame public feelings. But remember, if there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690","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=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}