{"id":312370,"date":"2019-05-16T07:01:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312370"},"modified":"2019-05-16T07:01:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T07:01:43","slug":"tamil-nadu-slippers-hurled-at-kamal-haasan-over-hindu-extremist-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/tamil-nadu-slippers-hurled-at-kamal-haasan-over-hindu-extremist-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu: Slippers hurled at Kamal Haasan over \u2018Hindu extremist remark\u2019"},"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-307406 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan..jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/kamal-hassan.-490x420.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Slippers were hurled on Wednesday evening at actor turned politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan, when he was addressing an election meeting in Tirupparankundram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Madurai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attack came three days after Haasan kicked up a controversy with his &#8220;independent India&#8217;s first extremist was a Hindu&#8221; remark, referring to Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassin Nathuram Godse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Police said, slippers were thrown towards the MNM chief who was addressing the meeting from a vehicle. However, slippers did hit Haasan and fell on the crowd gathered at the meeting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">One person had been detained by the police in connection with the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haasan has been facing the ire ever since he said that independent India&#8217;s first extremist was a Hindu, in reference to Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s assassin Nathuram Godse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A police complaint was also filed against Haasan on Tuesday\u00a0in Aravakurichi over his comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Wednesday, Haasan clarified that he had only &#8220;stated facts&#8221; in his speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also filed a petition for\u00a0anticipatory bail in the Madras High Court saying his remarks were in reference to Nathuram Godse only and not about the Hindu community as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slippers were hurled on Wednesday evening at actor turned politician and Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan, when he was addressing an election meeting in Tirupparankundram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Madurai. The attack came three days after Haasan kicked up a controversy with his &#8220;independent India&#8217;s first extremist was a Hindu&#8221; remark, referring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":307406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[641],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312370"}],"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=312370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312372,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312370\/revisions\/312372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}