{"id":130426,"date":"2018-02-18T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T11:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=130426"},"modified":"2018-02-18T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T11:34:28","slug":"dont-mix-religion-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/dont-mix-religion-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Dont mix religion with politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu has cautioned against mixing religion with politics, saying religion was \u201cpersonal\u201d and a \u201cway of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Venkaiah said politics should not get into religion and religion should not get into politics and added that \u201creligion is personal&#8230;it is a way of worship&#8230;we may pray to Allah..we may pray to Jesus Christ&#8230; we may pray Rama.. Krishna&#8230;Sai Baba&#8230;Lord Ayyappa\u201d.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/V-Naidu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-130427\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/V-Naidu.jpg\" alt=\"   Dont mix religion with politics \" width=\"528\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/V-Naidu.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/V-Naidu-768x482.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIf we believe in vasudhaiva kutumbakam and the spirit of the country is to treat everybody equal, how can anyone discriminate against people on the basis of religion and caste,\u201d Naidu asked.<\/p>\n<p>Closing temples in the name of caste is \u201ctotally wrong\u201d and against the dharma, culture and the visions of the country, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The vice-president said social justice and inclusion were part of the genesis of independent India and \u201cwe couldn\u2019t have had a really free nation with a sizable unfree population\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-president Venkaiah Naidu has cautioned against mixing religion with politics, saying religion was \u201cpersonal\u201d and a \u201cway of worship.\u201d Venkaiah said politics should not get into religion and religion should not get into politics and added that \u201creligion is personal&#8230;it is a way of worship&#8230;we may pray to Allah..we may pray to Jesus Christ&#8230; we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[66659,66660,22992,6303,66661,4634,307,52742],"class_list":["post-130426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-dont-mix-religion-with-politics","tag-jesus-christ","tag-lord-ayyappa","tag-politics","tag-rama-krishna-sai-baba","tag-religion","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-president-venkaiah-naidu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/e5-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130426","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=130426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}