{"id":306717,"date":"2018-12-07T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306717"},"modified":"2018-12-07T06:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:00:43","slug":"rajasthan-cm-urges-ec-to-take-action-against-sharad-yadav-for-body-shaming-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajasthan-cm-urges-ec-to-take-action-against-sharad-yadav-for-body-shaming-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthan CM urges EC to take action against Sharad Yadav for body shaming her"},"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-306720 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01-696x663.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01-441x420.jpg 441w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/Screenshot_20181207-112929__01.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on December 7 slammed Former JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav for body-shaming her. CM Raje said that Yadav did not only hurt her but also insulted all women and had set a bad example for youngsters after using such a language.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CM further urged the Election Commission (EC) to take cognizance of the misogynistic and sexist comments made by former leader Yadav.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I think not for my sake but to set an example of future, it&#8217;s very important that election commission should take cognizance of the things like this. Also, I can&#8217;t see this being used particularly against women. I feel insulted and I feel that women are insulted,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nahar Singh Maheshwari, state chief of BJP\u2019S election cell, filed a complaint with the election commission on behalf of the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The CM further said, \u201cI am absolutely shocked that such an experienced leader and the one who had such close relations with our family; there cannot be a worse thing that he couldn\u2019t control his tongue. The example of this goes to youngsters and we don\u2019t want that any of our younger generations to use such language.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Yadav sparked a controversy on December 6 when he called Raje \u201cfat\u201d while appealing to voters in the poll-bound state to not vote for BJP.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje on December 7 slammed Former JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav for body-shaming her. CM Raje said that Yadav did not only hurt her but also insulted all women and had set a bad example for youngsters after using such a language. The CM further urged the Election Commission (EC) to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[1478,9651,3218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306721,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306717\/revisions\/306721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}