{"id":327168,"date":"2020-10-02T08:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327168"},"modified":"2020-10-02T08:25:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T08:25:22","slug":"hathras-case-tmc-delegation-heading-to-meet-victims-family-stopped-by-up-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/hathras-case-tmc-delegation-heading-to-meet-victims-family-stopped-by-up-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Hathras case: TMC delegation heading to meet Victim&#8217;s family stopped by UP Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/hathras-case-tmc-delegation-heading-to-meet-victims-family-stopped-by-up-police\/tmc-delegation\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327169\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327169 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/tmc-delegation-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tmc-delegation-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/tmc-delegation.jpg 655w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a>Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation including MP Derek O&#8217;Brien, who were heading to meet the family of the Hathras Victim on Friday were stopped by the Uttar Pradesh police at the district border.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The delegation included Derek O&#8217;Brien, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Pratima Mondal and former MP Mamata Thakur.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s party slammed Yogi government and UP police for stopping the MPs and for manhandling them, in a tweet party said, &#8220;Is this a #democracy? @AITCofficial\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">MPs have been heckled,female MPs being manhandled, @derekobrienmp being pinned down on the floor when all they wanted to do was meet the family of #manisha_valmiki!\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">This is absolutely unacceptable &amp; strict action must be taken against @Uppolice&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On October 1, Mamata Banerjee condemned the incident at Hathras and expressed condolences to the victim&#8217;s family. In a tweet, she said, &#8220;Have no words to condemn the barbaric &amp; shameful incident at Hathras involving a young Dalit girl. My deepest condolences to the family. More shameful is the forceful cremation without the family\u2019s presence or consent, exposing those who use slogans &amp; lofty promises for votes.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to officials, local authorities have imposed section 144 to curb protests in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation including MP Derek O&#8217;Brien, who were heading to meet the family of the Hathras Victim on Friday were stopped by the Uttar Pradesh police at the district border. The delegation included Derek O&#8217;Brien, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Pratima Mondal and former MP Mamata Thakur. Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s party slammed Yogi government and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[13539,13540,13542,13541,2530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327168"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327171,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327168\/revisions\/327171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}