{"id":101835,"date":"2017-08-03T13:22:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=101835"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:22:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T07:52:18","slug":"unmarried-virgin-pandey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/unmarried-virgin-pandey\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmarried is a virgin: Pandey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bihar minister does not know what is virginity. In his attempts to justify the awkward phrasing of a question in a marital declaration form at Patna\u2019s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey has ended up redefining the very meaning of virginity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following a public furore over the document on Wednesday, the minister told news channels that there was nothing wrong with using the word \u2018virgin\u2019 because it simply meant \u2018kanya\u2019 or \u2018kunwari\u2019 \u2013 which means unmarried girl.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pandey, who joined the cabinet just three days ago, had earlier told a news channel that the \u2018virgin\u2019 question was only intended at making employees reveal their zodiac sign for official purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The chief minister\u2019s office has taken cognizance of the issue, and asked for a copy of the form.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It has also reportedly asked why the question was introduced in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bihar minister does not know what is virginity. In his attempts to justify the awkward phrasing of a question in a marital declaration form at Patna\u2019s Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences (IGIMS), Bihar health minister Mangal Pandey has ended up redefining the very meaning of virginity. Following a public furore over the document on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[51145,51140,51144,51143,51141,51142,17932,51139,11381],"class_list":["post-101835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bihar-health-minister-mangal-pandey","tag-bihar-minister","tag-igims","tag-indira-gandhi-institute-of-medical-sciences","tag-justify","tag-marital-declaration","tag-patna","tag-unmarried-is-a-virgin-pandey","tag-virginity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Unmarried-is-a-virgin.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}