{"id":328350,"date":"2020-11-05T07:24:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328350"},"modified":"2020-11-05T07:24:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:24:54","slug":"maharashtra-bjp-mla-ram-kadam-met-governor-bhagat-singh-koshyari-over-arrest-of-arnab-goswami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-bjp-mla-ram-kadam-met-governor-bhagat-singh-koshyari-over-arrest-of-arnab-goswami\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra: BJP MLA Ram Kadam met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over arrest of Arnab Goswami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-bjp-mla-ram-kadam-met-governor-bhagat-singh-koshyari-over-arrest-of-arnab-goswami\/ram-kadam\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328351\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-328351 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-696x496.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam-589x420.jpg 589w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/ram-kadam.jpg 836w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a>BJP MLA from Ghatkopar, Ram Kadam on Thursday met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ram Kadam demanded the immediate release of Arnab Goswami and sought action against nine policemen, who arrested and misbehaved with him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Ram Kadam also said that he will hold a hunger strike in retaliation against the arrest and to protect the fourth pillar of democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Taking to the microblogging site, Ram Kadam in a tweet said, &#8220;In retaliation against the arrest of #ArnabGoswami &amp; to protect the fourth pillar of our democracy, I will be holding a hunger strike outside Mantralaya tomorrow. I urge #MVA Govt to immediately withdraw all the cases against Arnab and his family.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;Govt should also apologise for the physical assaults on #ArnabGoswami &amp; immediately suspend those police officers. and ensure democracy&#8217;s fourth pillar is given its due respec,&#8221; Kadam added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Arnab Goswami was arrested on Wednesday by Mumbai Police in connection with an old abetment to suicide case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He was arrested for allegedly abetting suicide of a 53-year-old interior designer and his mother in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the reports, Goswami claimed that he was manhandled and assaulted by Mumbai police while trying to arrest him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Several ministers have condemned the arrest. Union Minister for Information and Broadcast Prakash Javadekar said the incident is a reminder of the \u201cemergency days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP MLA from Ghatkopar, Ram Kadam on Thursday met Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over the arrest of Republic TV Editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami. Ram Kadam demanded the immediate release of Arnab Goswami and sought action against nine policemen, who arrested and misbehaved with him. Ram Kadam also said that he will hold a hunger strike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":328351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[13668,12109,4819],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328350"}],"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=328350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328353,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328350\/revisions\/328353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}