{"id":312043,"date":"2019-05-07T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312043"},"modified":"2019-05-07T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T11:18:48","slug":"over-200-du-teachers-issue-statement-slamming-pm-modi-derogatory-remarks-on-rajiv-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/over-200-du-teachers-issue-statement-slamming-pm-modi-derogatory-remarks-on-rajiv-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 200 DU teachers issue statement slamming PM Modi \u2018derogatory remarks\u2019 on Rajiv Gandhi"},"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-311809 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/modi..maharashtra-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi..maharashtra-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi..maharashtra.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">More than 200 Delhi University teachers have issued a public statement condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making &#8220;derogatory and untrue&#8221; remarks about former PM Rajiv Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Their statement came after PM Modi in a rally on Saturday targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi for tarnishing his image over Rafale deal and said that your father was termed &#8216;Mr Clean&#8217; by his courtiers, but his life ended as \u201ccorrupt number 1&#8243;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Delhi University teacher\u2019s letter reads, &#8220;PM Modi has lowered the dignity of the office of the prime minister by making derogatory and untrue remarks about the late Rajivji, who made the supreme sacrifice in the service of the nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Writer Sadhavi Khosla was among the first to share the letter. She tweeted about the Delhi University teachers&#8217; letter on Monday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHundreds of Delhi University Teachers condemn PM @narendramodi for false and crude remarks on former PM Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi. @PMOIndia. The statement is signed by Aditya Narayan Mishra, President of DUTA and 200 DU Teachers,\u201d Khosla tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Khosla further said, \u201cDear Modiji, if you want to rake up 1984 riots and want to fight the remaining election on that than the other side can also start on 2002 riots. You\u2019re constantly insulting the assassinated former PM Rajiv Gandhi. Why? To settle scores with the Gandhis- don\u2019t demean a Martyr.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNo MP whether in govt or Opposition, seemed to think of Rajiv as personally corrupt. All were shaken by the brutal assassination of a fine human being and grieved over it. Writes Rajmohan Gandhi who contested against #RajivGandhi from Amethi in 1989,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statement has also been tweeted by Congress leader Sam Pitroda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cStatement by over 200 Delhi University Teachers condemning Narendra Modi for his remarks on the late Rajiv Gandhi with actual signatures&#8230; Sharing some of them here,\u201d Pitroda said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 200 Delhi University teachers have issued a public statement condemning Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making &#8220;derogatory and untrue&#8221; remarks about former PM Rajiv Gandhi. Their statement came after PM Modi in a rally on Saturday targeted Congress president Rahul Gandhi for tarnishing his image over Rafale deal and said that your father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,11321,316,11178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312043"}],"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=312043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312044,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312043\/revisions\/312044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}