{"id":300501,"date":"2018-07-18T12:11:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300501"},"modified":"2018-07-18T12:11:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T12:11:30","slug":"swami-agnivesh-stage-attack-on-himself-to-gain-popularity-bjp-jharkhand-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/swami-agnivesh-stage-attack-on-himself-to-gain-popularity-bjp-jharkhand-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Swami Agnivesh stage attack on himself to gain popularity: BJP Jharkhand Minister"},"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-300502 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/cb-singh-agnivesh-300x129.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cb-singh-agnivesh-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cb-singh-agnivesh-768x331.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cb-singh-agnivesh-696x300.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/cb-singh-agnivesh.jpg 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/>Chandreshwar Prasad Singh, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Jharkhand on Wednesday alleged that Swami Agnivesh Staged the attack on himself to come into the limelight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8221; As far as I know, Swami Agnivesh is a person who survives on foreign donations. The saffron dress that he wears is to deceive the simple Indians. He is a fraud and not a Swami. He had himself planned this attack to gain popularity,&#8221; Singh told the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 80-year-old activist was attacked by a mob on the day the\u00a0Supreme Court\u00a0said &#8220;mobocracy cannot be the new normal.&#8221; He was punched, kicked, and verbally abused by a mob outside a hotel in Jharkhand\u2019s Pakur district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister\u00a0Raghubar Das\u00a0has instructed the police to enquire the incident and security has been provided to Swami Agnivesh by Jharkhand state government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandreshwar Prasad Singh, Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from Jharkhand on Wednesday alleged that Swami Agnivesh Staged the attack on himself to come into the limelight. &#8221; As far as I know, Swami Agnivesh is a person who survives on foreign donations. The saffron dress that he wears is to deceive the simple Indians. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2090,2014],"tags":[2763,453,3695,3698,955,3697,3696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300501"}],"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=300501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300503,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300501\/revisions\/300503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}