{"id":302238,"date":"2018-09-04T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302238"},"modified":"2018-09-04T11:43:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:43:50","slug":"bjp-may-field-malayalam-superstar-mohanlal-in-2019-lok-sabha-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-may-field-malayalam-superstar-mohanlal-in-2019-lok-sabha-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP may field Malayalam superstar Mohanlal in 2019 Lok Sabha Polls"},"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-302239 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mohanlal-289x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mohanlal-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mohanlal-405x420.jpg 405w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/mohanlal.jpg 679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/>The\u00a0Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is keen to field\u00a0Malayalam superstar Mohanlal in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, as per sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Reports says, RSS is\u00a0trying to build a &#8216;social activist&#8217; profile for Mohanlal,\u00a0in the run-up to the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The latest round of speculation came as Mohanlal on Monday, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to invite him for a function organised by the actor\u2019s community service initiative under VishwaSanthi Foundation in Wayanad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u201cIt has been a privilege to meet our Honourable Prime Minister Shri.\u00a0@narendramodi\u00a0ji on this auspicious day of Janmashtami. Briefed him about\u00a0@VishwaSanthiFndn\u00a0and our multifaceted social initiatives,\u201d Mohanlal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Mohanlal&#8217;s meeting with PM Modi was part of an exercise to build a political and social profile for the actor\u00a0and not a para-dropped profile<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took to his twitter account to express about his meeting with\u00a0Mohanlal<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYesterday, I had a wonderful meeting with\u00a0@Mohanlal Ji. His humility is endearing. His wide range of social service initiatives are commendable and extremely inspiring,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is keen to field\u00a0Malayalam superstar Mohanlal in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Thiruvananthapuram as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, as per sources. Reports says, RSS is\u00a0trying to build a &#8216;social activist&#8217; profile for Mohanlal,\u00a0in the run-up to the polls. The latest round of speculation came as Mohanlal on Monday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[3974,1885,453,4732,4733,316,2450,1681,2200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302238"}],"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=302238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302240,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302238\/revisions\/302240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}