{"id":304234,"date":"2018-10-16T19:20:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304234"},"modified":"2018-10-16T19:20:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T19:20:43","slug":"rahul-targets-modi-government-tells-mp-voters-to-save-daughters-from-bjp-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-targets-modi-government-tells-mp-voters-to-save-daughters-from-bjp-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul targets Modi government, tells MP voters to save daughters from BJP Ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-targets-modi-government-tells-mp-voters-to-save-daughters-from-bjp-ministers\/rahul-mp\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-304235\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304235 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"629\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 629px) 100vw, 629px\" \/><\/a>Taking a dig at Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao\u2019 slogan, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday in a rally in Madhya Pradesh said that the slogan should be changed to \u201cBJP ke mantri se beti bachao\u201d (save daughters from BJP ministers).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president targeted Narendra Modi for his silence over charges of sexual harassment made on BJP Ministers. Rahul said, \u201cNarendra Modi\u2019s slogan Beti Padhao, Beti Bachao is a good slogan but when his minister M J Akbar\u00a0is questioned over the allegations of sexual misconduct and his MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Uttar Pradesh commits rape, the prime minister does not utter a word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said that, \u201cNot only Prime Minister Modi but also the BJP chief ministers in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh did not say a word.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Multiple women in last few days have accused MJ Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs in the NDA government of sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Opposition parties led by the Congress have demanded Akbar\u2019s resignation and Centre\u2019s response over the matter. Akbar, however, has rubbished the charges against him and has\u00a0filed a criminal defamation case\u00a0against one of the accusers, journalist\u00a0Priya Ramani.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking a dig at Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao\u2019 slogan, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday in a rally in Madhya Pradesh said that the slogan should be changed to \u201cBJP ke mantri se beti bachao\u201d (save daughters from BJP ministers). Congress president targeted Narendra Modi for his silence over charges of sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[5610,5611,453,236,1457,5505,1043,316,579,5609],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304234"}],"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=304234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304237,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304234\/revisions\/304237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}