{"id":4124,"date":"2019-01-25T15:03:13","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:12:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:42:45","slug":"bihar-minister-sparks-controversy-says-votes-cannot-be-earned-on-the-basis-of-a-beautiful-face-referring-to-priyanka-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bihar-minister-sparks-controversy-says-votes-cannot-be-earned-on-the-basis-of-a-beautiful-face-referring-to-priyanka-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Bihar minister sparks controversy,  says votes cannot be earned on the basis of a beautiful face referring to Priyanka Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sparking controversy, Bihar minister Vinod Narayan Jha has dismissed Priyanka Gandhi as a \u2018very beautiful face\u2019 without any \u2018political achievement\u2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Attacking the Congress General Secretary, the minister went on to state that \u2018votes can\u2019t be won on the basis of beautiful faces\u2019. The minister also added that she is the wife of Robert Vadra &#8211; a businessman accused of corruption and involved in land scams.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The minister\u2019s attack comes in the backdrop of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra\u2019s recent debut in active politics. She has been appointed as the General Secretary of Uttar Pradesh (East) by the Congress party last Wednesday. Ending years of speculation on her role in politics, the charismatic 47-years old Congress leader will join office from February 1 &#8211; just months ahead of the Lok Sabha polls scheduled in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sparking controversy, Bihar minister Vinod Narayan Jha has dismissed Priyanka Gandhi as a \u2018very beautiful face\u2019 without any \u2018political achievement\u2019. Attacking the Congress General Secretary, the minister went on to state that \u2018votes can\u2019t be won on the basis of beautiful faces\u2019. The minister also added that she is the wife of Robert Vadra &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":4083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4124","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\/4124","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=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}