{"id":306680,"date":"2018-12-06T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306680"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:25:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:25:38","slug":"dalit-mp-savitri-bai-phule-quits-bjp-says-party-creating-divisions-in-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dalit-mp-savitri-bai-phule-quits-bjp-says-party-creating-divisions-in-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalit MP Savitri Bai Phule quits BJP, says party creating divisions in society"},"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=\" wp-image-306681 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Savitri_Bai_Phule-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"501\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Savitri_Bai_Phule-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Savitri_Bai_Phule-696x399.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Savitri_Bai_Phule.jpg 730w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 501px) 100vw, 501px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Savitri Bai Phule, a BJP parliamentarian from Uttar Pradesh has resigned from the party on December 6 alleging the party is trying to \u201ccreate divisions in society\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Dalit leader has been upset with her party for a while and is seen as a rebel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Phule who represents Bahraich in parliament said, &#8220;India&#8217;s money is being spent on construction of statues instead of being used for the development of the country.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While announcing her resignation she said. &#8220;I am a social worker. I work for Dalits. BJP is doing nothing for Dalit reservation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dalit MP added, \u201cFrom today onwards, I have nothing to do with the BJP. My voice was being ignored in the party as I am a Dalit. There is a great conspiracy against Dalits and their rights. The reservation for Dalits and Backwards is also being slowly taken away. I will continue to fight for the Constitution and will hold a mega rally in Lucknow on January 23.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have resigned from the party. But I will continue as a Lok Sabha member till the end of my tenure,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savitri Bai Phule, a BJP parliamentarian from Uttar Pradesh has resigned from the party on December 6 alleging the party is trying to \u201ccreate divisions in society\u201d. The Dalit leader has been upset with her party for a while and is seen as a rebel. Phule who represents Bahraich in parliament said, &#8220;India&#8217;s money is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[453,10133,1465,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306680"}],"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=306680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306682,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306680\/revisions\/306682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}