{"id":318363,"date":"2019-12-28T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T11:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318363"},"modified":"2019-12-28T12:30:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T12:30:55","slug":"rahul-gandhi-hits-out-at-bjp-over-violence-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-hits-out-at-bjp-over-violence-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi hits out at BJP over violence in Assam"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-318364 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rahul-gandhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-gandhi.jpg 688w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-gandhi-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/rahul-gandhi-544x420.jpg 544w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the BJP for not listening to the voice of people and expressed concern that Assam might return to the path of violence because of the policies of BJP government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing a rally in Guwahati, Rahul said, &#8220;I fear Assam is returning to the path of violence because of the BJP&#8217;s policies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAssam taught me about brotherhood, respect for each other, taking everyone along. When I speak to you I say what I have learnt from you,\u201d Rahul said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIf they think that the history, culture and languages \u200b\u200bof Northeast India can be crushed, then let me tell that they do not recognize Northeast India fully yet,\u201d Rahul added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Assam has been witnessing massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act after it was passed by both the houses.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul also visited the families of the people killed during the protests.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hit out at the BJP for not listening to the voice of people and expressed concern that Assam might return to the path of violence because of the policies of BJP government. Addressing a rally in Guwahati, Rahul said, &#8220;I fear Assam is returning to the path of violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":318364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,1801,2014],"tags":[1758,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318363"}],"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=318363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318369,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318363\/revisions\/318369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}