{"id":329827,"date":"2020-12-29T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329827"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T09:40:28","slug":"in-a-u-turn-rajinikanth-decides-not-to-enter-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/in-a-u-turn-rajinikanth-decides-not-to-enter-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"In a U-turn, Rajinikanth decides not to enter politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329830 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/rajini-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/rajini-1.jpg 462w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/rajini-1-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/>Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday announced that he will not be starting his political party, citing his health conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The dramatic u-turn to stay away from politics came within a month of his prior announcement to enter politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a three-page letter posted on his Twitter handle, Rajinikanth said, \u201cI will serve people without entering electoral politics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajnikanth said that he takes the recent health condition as a warning from God and he will not take the political plunge for the 2021 Tamil Nadu elections and start a party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The actor\u2019s tweet came two days after he was discharged from a Hyderabad hospital where he was being treated for blood pressure fluctuations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajinikanth decided to launch his political party in January,\u00a0 five months before the state elections in Tamil Nadu and a formal announcement was expected on December 31. However, days ahead of the launch, the actor has cancelled the plans.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superstar Rajinikanth on Tuesday announced that he will not be starting his political party, citing his health conditions. The dramatic u-turn to stay away from politics came within a month of his prior announcement to enter politics. In a three-page letter posted on his Twitter handle, Rajinikanth said, \u201cI will serve people without entering electoral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[2292],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329827"}],"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=329827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329831,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329827\/revisions\/329831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}