{"id":356329,"date":"2025-09-08T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=356329"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:06:16","slug":"bjp-slams-india-blocs-v-p-candidate-for-meeting-lalu-ahead-of-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-slams-india-blocs-v-p-candidate-for-meeting-lalu-ahead-of-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP slams INDIA bloc\u2019s V-P candidate for meeting Lalu ahead of poll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Just a day before the Vice-Presidential election in the country, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that INDIA bloc\u2019s V-P candidate B Sudarshan Reddy\u2019s behavior is worthy of condemnation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pointing out the meeting between Reddy and former chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and his comment on protecting the soul of the nation, Prasad said, \u201cHe said in a statement” vote for me to protect the soul of nation “and who is he meeting now? Lalu Prasad Yadav who is convicted in fodder scam and charge sheet in railway property corruption. He is not even a MP.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addressing a press conference here he said this act is hypocrisy and he should not talk about the soul of the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments came after the former Supreme Court judge and V-P candidate released a clip on social media, appealing MP to \u2018vote thoughtfully\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his appeal he said, \u201cThis vote is not just for the Vice President but it is a vote for the soul of the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking further Prasad said that many other judges came in support when he was questioned about how the Salwa Judum revolution was affected by his judgment now they are mum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would really respectfully observe where are the retired judges who publicly stood with him? What they had to say on this below dignity of norms of propriety that he displayed,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a day before the Vice-Presidential election in the country, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said that INDIA bloc\u2019s V-P candidate B Sudarshan Reddy\u2019s behavior is worthy of condemnation. Pointing out the meeting between Reddy and former chief minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav and his comment on protecting the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":356334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[16188,16003,15573,15620,18757,17772],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356329"}],"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\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356329"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356335,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356329\/revisions\/356335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/356334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}