{"id":330236,"date":"2021-01-14T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330236"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:50:51","slug":"its-my-duty-to-protect-history-of-tamil-nadu-rahul-gandhi-at-jallikattu-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/its-my-duty-to-protect-history-of-tamil-nadu-rahul-gandhi-at-jallikattu-event\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Its my duty to protect history of Tamil Nadu&#8217;: Rahul Gandhi at Jallikattu event"},"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-330237 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rahul-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rahul-2.jpg 602w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rahul-2-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rahul-2-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rahul-2-577x420.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attended the popular bull taming sport Jallikattu in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi earlier in a tweet said, \u201cComing to celebrate Pongal with you in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tamil Nadu Congress Committee TNCC chief KS Alagiri and DMK Youth Wing Secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin also witnessed the &#8216;Jallikattu&#8217; event along with Rahul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While addressing the people at the event, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rahul said it was a lovely experience to see Tamil culture and history in action.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am happy to see the Jallikattu is being organised in a systematic and safe way so that both the bull and youngsters are safe and everybody is being taken care of,\u201d the former Congress President\u00a0 said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul further said he had received tremendous love and affection from the people of Tamil Nadu. \u201cIt is my duty to stand with the people of Tamil Nadu and protect their history, culture and their language,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also wished the people a &#8216;Happy Pongal&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attended the popular bull taming sport Jallikattu in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Rahul Gandhi earlier in a tweet said, \u201cComing to celebrate Pongal with you in Madurai, Tamil Nadu.\u201d Tamil Nadu Congress Committee TNCC chief KS Alagiri and DMK Youth Wing Secretary Udhayanidhi Stalin also witnessed the &#8216;Jallikattu&#8217; event along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[10307,579,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236"}],"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=330236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330241,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330236\/revisions\/330241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}