{"id":301349,"date":"2018-08-12T09:10:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301349"},"modified":"2018-08-12T09:10:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T09:10:22","slug":"mob-lynching-is-a-crime-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mob-lynching-is-a-crime-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob lynching is a crime: PM Modi"},"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=\"size-medium wp-image-299861 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/Narendra-Modi.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview to a leading newspaper on Saturday evening has strongly condemned mob lynching incidents. He said, &#8220;mob lynching is a crime, no matter the motive, \u00a0no person can, under any circumstances, take the law into his or her own hands and commit violence.\u201d \u00a0\u201cMy government is fully committed to upholding the rule of law and protecting the life and liberty of every citizen,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defending Rafale deal, PM Modi said the Congress is spreading falsehood and repeating it without any evidence.\u00a0\u201cIt is a government-to-government agreement; it is an honest and transparent deal. All else is nothing but propaganda to undermine national interest,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Talking on Assam NRC, PM Modi said, \u201cPreventing illegal migrants was a\u00a0commitment\u00a0in the Indira-Mujib Accord of 1972 and Rajiv Gandhi-AASU Accord of 1985.\u00a0It was our promise to the people of India to complete the NRC process. It is not about politics but about people. We are complying with the Supreme Court\u2019s directions and following the procedural fairness as mandated by the Court. The process is on and the list released is only a draft list.\u00a0\u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking on Congress\u2019s Mahagathbandhan, PM Said \u201cA non-ideological alliance of desperate and disparate groups is not a \u2018mahagathbandhan\u2019 but political adventurism. It is a failed idea that has never succeeded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an interview to a leading newspaper on Saturday evening has strongly condemned mob lynching incidents. He said, &#8220;mob lynching is a crime, no matter the motive, \u00a0no person can, under any circumstances, take the law into his or her own hands and commit violence.\u201d \u00a0\u201cMy government is fully committed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[453,236,4124,316,38,456],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301349"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301350,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301349\/revisions\/301350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}