{"id":17743,"date":"2016-09-25T14:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=17743"},"modified":"2016-09-25T14:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T14:52:43","slug":"muslims-are-our-own-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/muslims-are-our-own-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims are our own people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contending that the definition of secularism has been distorted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on invoked Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to say that Muslims should be treated as &#8220;your own&#8221; rather than being seen as &#8220;items of vote market&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Modi said if the BJP had compromised with the ideology, it could have attained power long back.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the BJP Council meeting here, he said his government&#8217;s mission of &#8216;sabka sath, sabka vikas&#8217; is not a political slogan but a commitment to ensure welfare of the last man in the society.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17745\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/aiumb.jpg\" alt=\"Muslims are our own people \" width=\"759\" height=\"422\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Modi spoke at length about secularism, balanced and inclusive growth and need for electoral reforms while paying tributes to Upadhyay on his 100th birth anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These days, the definition has been distored. Even nationalism is cursed these days,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17746\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/M_Id_419664_Modi-muslims.jpg\" alt=\" Modi-muslims\" width=\"660\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While talking about life and contribution of Upadhyay, Modi quoted him as saying, &#8220;don&#8217;t reward nor rebuke Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Empower them. They are not items of vote market nor are they substance of hate. Treat them as your own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17747\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/big_369742_1433309291.jpg\" alt=\" Modi-muslims\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of the two-day BJP conclave here aimed at making inroads in Kerala, the Prime Minister traced the party&#8217;s journey from the days of Jan Sangh and asserted that &#8220;we never compromised with our ideology&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contending that the definition of secularism has been distorted, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on invoked Jan Sangh ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay to say that Muslims should be treated as &#8220;your own&#8221; rather than being seen as &#8220;items of vote market&#8221;. Modi said if the BJP had compromised with the ideology, it could have attained power long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[6623,6622,773,318,6624,6625],"class_list":["post-17743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp-council","tag-deendayal-upadhyay","tag-muslims","tag-prime-minister-narendra-modi","tag-sabka-sath","tag-sabka-vikas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743","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=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}