{"id":122048,"date":"2018-01-08T10:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=122048"},"modified":"2018-01-08T10:59:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:29:23","slug":"bjp-man-greeted-chappal-garland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/bjp-man-greeted-chappal-garland\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP man greeted with chappal garland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A BJP candidate campaigning for the upcoming local body elections in Madhya Pradesh was left shocking after he was greeted with garland of shoes while campaigning in Dhamnod, a town in Dhar district situated around 272 km from state capital Bhopal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The incident took place on Sunday when Dinesh Sharma, the BJP candidate for Dhamnod Civic election, was campaigning door-to-door to seek votes for his party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122050 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/652775-shoes-garland.jpg\" alt=\"BJP man greeted with chappal garland \" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are one of my own. There must have been something which upset him and he acted like that. We will sit together and talk. I am like their child,&#8221; said Mr Sharma reacting to the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sharma tried to move away when he was approached by a man with the garland of shoes, but he later lets him put it around his neck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man who made him wear the garland says he wanted to highlight the acute water problem in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BJP candidate campaigning for the upcoming local body elections in Madhya Pradesh was left shocking after he was greeted with garland of shoes while campaigning in Dhamnod, a town in Dhar district situated around 272 km from state capital Bhopal. The incident took place on Sunday when Dinesh Sharma, the BJP candidate for Dhamnod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[62634,62641,62640,62636,62638,62639,62637,35509,62635,6605],"class_list":["post-122048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp-candidate-campaigning","tag-bjp-man-greeted-with-chappal-garland","tag-campaigning-door-to-door","tag-campaigning-in-dhamnod","tag-capital-bhopal","tag-dhamnod-civic-election","tag-dhar-district","tag-dinesh-sharma","tag-local-body-elections","tag-madhya-pradesh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bjp-candidate-garlanded-with-shoes-dhar_650x400_41515370217.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122048","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=122048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}