{"id":308551,"date":"2019-01-27T08:33:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T08:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308551"},"modified":"2019-01-27T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T08:33:33","slug":"pro-khalistan-rally-in-us-turns-out-to-be-a-flop-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pro-khalistan-rally-in-us-turns-out-to-be-a-flop-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Khalistan rally in US turns out to be a flop show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A rally by Pro Khalistan group, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) outside the Indian Embassy in Washington on the occasion of the Republic Day turned out to be a flop show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the sources, the demonstration by SFJ was attended by around 15-20 people, who were outnumbered by Indian-Americans waving Indian flags.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The protesters raised \u201cKhalistan zindabaad\u201d slogans and had planned that they would be burning the Indian flag outside the Embassy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">However, sources claimed that no flags were burnt at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The local Sikh community slammed the SFJ for the protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, twitter has suspended the account of the SFJ.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rally by Pro Khalistan group, Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) outside the Indian Embassy in Washington on the occasion of the Republic Day turned out to be a flop show. According to the sources, the demonstration by SFJ was attended by around 15-20 people, who were outnumbered by Indian-Americans waving Indian flags. The protesters raised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":308552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308551"}],"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=308551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308553,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308551\/revisions\/308553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}