{"id":311791,"date":"2019-05-01T05:01:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311791"},"modified":"2019-05-01T05:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T05:01:56","slug":"shiv-sena-wants-burqa-ban-in-public-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiv-sena-wants-burqa-ban-in-public-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiv Sena wants burqa ban in public places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-311792 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Burqa-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Burqa-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/Burqa.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Following the Sri Lankan government footsteps, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday called for a ban on the use of burqa by women of a particular community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the Sri Lankan government had banned burqa, across the island nation in the wake of the Easter Sunday serial blasts that killed over 250 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Shiv Sena\u2019s proposal, however, was rejected by another NDA ally, union minister Ramdas\u00a0Athawale who said that burqa should not be banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is not right to say that all women who wear burqa are terrorists, but there are people who misuse the burqa and they should be punished. It is a tradition and they have a right to wear it. There should not be a ban on burqa in India,\u201d Ramdas\u00a0Athawale said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Sri Lankan government footsteps, the Shiv Sena on Wednesday called for a ban on the use of burqa by women of a particular community. According to the sources, the Sri Lankan government had banned burqa, across the island nation in the wake of the Easter Sunday serial blasts that killed over 250 people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[513],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311791"}],"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=311791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311793,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311791\/revisions\/311793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}