{"id":308948,"date":"2019-02-04T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308948"},"modified":"2019-02-04T09:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:19:52","slug":"mns-chief-raj-thackeray-meets-anna-hazare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mns-chief-raj-thackeray-meets-anna-hazare\/","title":{"rendered":"MNS chief Raj Thackeray meets Anna Hazare"},"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-308949 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/raj-thack-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/raj-thack-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/raj-thack.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Maharashtra\u00a0Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief\u00a0Raj Thackeray\u00a0on Monday met social activist Anna Hazare whose indefinite hunger strike entered the sixth day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Accompanied by several\u00a0MNS\u00a0leaders, Thackeray arrived at Ralegan-Siddhi, the village of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra where\u00a0Anna Hazare launched his fast on January 30.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thackeray extended his full support to Anna\u2019s agitation and asked him not to sacrifice his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 81-year-old\u00a0social activist\u00a0is demanding appointment of Lokpal at the Centre and Lokayuktas in states and also raising farmers&#8217; issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the\u00a0meeting,\u00a0Thackeray\u00a0addressed the gathering at Hazare&#8217;s protest site and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cheating the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thackeray\u00a0said, &#8220;I have appealed Anna not to sacrifice his life for the undeserving hypocrites.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHe should not trust Prime Minister Narendra Modi and any of his promises,\u201d Thackeray added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra\u00a0Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief\u00a0Raj Thackeray\u00a0on Monday met social activist Anna Hazare whose indefinite hunger strike entered the sixth day. Accompanied by several\u00a0MNS\u00a0leaders, Thackeray arrived at Ralegan-Siddhi, the village of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra where\u00a0Anna Hazare launched his fast on January 30. Thackeray extended his full support to Anna\u2019s agitation and asked him not to sacrifice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[815,8881],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308948"}],"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=308948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308950,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308948\/revisions\/308950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}