{"id":300487,"date":"2018-07-18T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300487"},"modified":"2018-07-18T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T07:05:04","slug":"is-bjp-starting-taliban-in-hinduism-questions-shashi-tharoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/is-bjp-starting-taliban-in-hinduism-questions-shashi-tharoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Is BJP starting Taliban in Hinduism, questions Shashi Tharoor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-300488 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/tharoor-300x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tharoor-300x281.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tharoor-696x652.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tharoor-449x420.jpg 449w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/tharoor.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \/>Congress MP Shashi tharoor, who had earlier triggered the controversy with \u201cHindu Pakistan\u201d remark has again lashed out at BJP by questioning them whether they want to start \u201cTaliban in Hinduism\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;They are asking me to go to Pakistan. Who has given them the right to decide that I am not a Hindu like them and I don&#8217;t have the right to stay in the country? Have they started a Taliban in Hinduism,&#8221; Tharoor said in Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This comes after Tharoor on Monday accused the\u00a0BJP\u00a0youth activists for waving black flags at his office in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and damaging his office. He alleged that slogans were raised against him; asking him to go to Pakistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c@YUVAMORCHABJP vandals attacked my constituency office in Thiruvananthapuram. They poured black engine oil on signs, doors, walls &amp; gate, drove away innocent citizens waiting with their petitions, put up offensive banners &amp; shouted slogans asking me to go to Pakistan. We have all been warned. The BJP\u2019s answer to the simple question \u201chave you given up the dream of a Hindu Rashtra?\u201d is apparently vandalism &amp; violence.\u00a0 That is the face they have shown in Thiruvananthapuram today. Most Hindus will say these Sanghi goondas do not represent us,&#8221; he had tweeted after his office was attacked.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Shashi tharoor, who had earlier triggered the controversy with \u201cHindu Pakistan\u201d remark has again lashed out at BJP by questioning them whether they want to start \u201cTaliban in Hinduism\u201d &#8220;They are asking me to go to Pakistan. Who has given them the right to decide that I am not a Hindu like them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,236,2053,3688,2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300489,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300487\/revisions\/300489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}