{"id":310828,"date":"2019-03-26T12:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310828"},"modified":"2019-03-26T12:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T12:01:30","slug":"pm-modi-insults-veteran-leaders-says-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-insults-veteran-leaders-says-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi insults veteran leaders, says Arvind Kejriwal"},"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-299341 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"483\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/arvind-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was insulting veteran leaders like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi by not letting them contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal said in series of tweets that insulting elders was not part of Hindu or Indian culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The way Modi insulted his elders \u2013 LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, this is against Hindu culture. In Hinduism, we have been taught to respect our elders,\u201d Kejriwal said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal said that those who built the &#8220;house&#8221; had been thrown out and wondering about the &#8220;loyalty of those who are not loyal to their elders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Joshi today announced that the BJP had told him not to contest the Lok Sabha election. Earlier the BJP had also denied ticket to LK Advani and replaced him with party President Amit Shah from the Gandhinagar Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was insulting veteran leaders like L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi by not letting them contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.\u00a0 Kejriwal said in series of tweets that insulting elders was not part of Hindu or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310828"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310830,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310828\/revisions\/310830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}