{"id":320253,"date":"2020-02-20T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T10:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320253"},"modified":"2020-02-20T11:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T11:25:07","slug":"video-of-dalits-being-tortured-is-horrific-sickening-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/video-of-dalits-being-tortured-is-horrific-sickening-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Video of Dalits being tortured is horrific, sickening\u2019: Rahul Gandhi"},"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-308590 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"815\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul.jpg 815w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-696x465.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rahul-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the video of two young Dalit men being tortured in Rajasthan was horrific and sickening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He urged the state government to bring the accused to justice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe recent video of two young Dalit men being brutally tortured in Nagaur, Rajasthan is horrific &amp; sickening. I urge the state Government to take immediate action to bring the perpetrators of this shocking crime to justice,\u201d Rahul Gandhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul\u2019s tweet came hours after a video of two men being thrashed went viral on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Responding to Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s tweet, BJP&#8217;s Amit Malviya reminded him that the \u201cChief Minister is also the Home Minister\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cState government? The Chief Minister is also the Home Minister and his name is Ashok Gehlot. Just in case you didn\u2019t know who is responsible for the brutality against Dalits in the state&#8230; Ever since Congress formed govt in Rajasthan, crime against Dalits and women has shot up,\u201d Amit Malviya tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that the video of two young Dalit men being tortured in Rajasthan was horrific and sickening. He urged the state government to bring the accused to justice. \u201cThe recent video of two young Dalit men being brutally tortured in Nagaur, Rajasthan is horrific &amp; sickening. I urge the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2560,2014],"tags":[579,1478],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320253"}],"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=320253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320256,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320253\/revisions\/320256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}