{"id":302343,"date":"2018-09-07T06:44:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T06:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302343"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:44:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T06:44:20","slug":"rs-5-lakh-reward-for-anyone-who-chops-off-bjp-mla-kadams-tongue-says-congress-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rs-5-lakh-reward-for-anyone-who-chops-off-bjp-mla-kadams-tongue-says-congress-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Rs 5 lakh reward for anyone who &#8216;chops off&#8217; BJP MLA Kadam&#8217;s tongue, says Congress leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; 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-302344 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/subodh-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/subodh-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/subodh-505x420.jpg 505w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/subodh.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Congress leader and former Maharashtra minister Subodh Saoji announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone who &#8220;chops off the tongue&#8221; of Ram Kadam, Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Saoji was caught saying this in a video of an event at Buldhana in eastern Maharashtra on September 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saoji reportedly said, &#8220;I am announcing a Rs 5 lakh reward for anyone who chops off BJP MLA Ram Kadam&#8217;s tongue. I strongly condemn him saying girls should be abducted.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Saoji&#8217;s response came in wake of Kadam&#8217;s deplorable statement on girls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He added, &#8220;I strongly condemn his statement saying girls should be abducted (if they refuse a boy&#8217;s proposal). It is unbecoming of an MLA to say such things.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kadam during a &#8220;Dahi Handi&#8221; event at Ghatkopar, his assembly constituency in Mumbai, said, &#8220;You (youngsters) can meet me for any work. I will help, 100 per cent. Come (to me) with your parents. What will I do if parents approve? I will kidnap the girl concerned and hand her over to you (for marriage).&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, the Maharashtra State Commission for Women has issued notice to the BJP legislator Kadam for the deplorable comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra BJP spokesperson Shaina commented, &#8220;There was a legislator from our own political party who was talking about how you can kidnap young girls and if you want to have a quick pass time &#8216;I will help you&#8217; and it shocked me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader and former Maharashtra minister Subodh Saoji announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone who &#8220;chops off the tongue&#8221; of Ram Kadam, Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Saoji was caught saying this in a video of an event at Buldhana in eastern Maharashtra on September 6. Saoji reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1885,3433,1467,4819,4818],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302343"}],"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=302343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302345,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302343\/revisions\/302345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}