{"id":24322,"date":"2016-10-12T13:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2016-10-12T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:43:28","slug":"rabri-devi-forces-rss-wear-pants-says-lalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rabri-devi-forces-rss-wear-pants-says-lalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabri devi forced RSS to wear pants says Lalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RJD chief Lalu Prasad credited his wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi for the change in the RSS\u2019s dress code from khaki shorts to trousers. It may be noted that from Dasara onwards the RSS men have started wearing brown pants in place of Khakhi cheddis and they are also planning to get brown sweaters also for the winter coming winter season. This is a big change after several decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24326\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/lalu-prasad-yadav.jpg\" alt=\"lalu-prasad-yadav\" width=\"660\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe forced the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) members to wear trousers. Rabri Devi had pointed out their (RSS men\u2019s) lack of decency. Elderly cadres shamelessly roamed around freely in half-pants,\u201d Lalu told reporters here.<br \/>\nLalu Yadav took the dig at the right-wing organisation a day after its members started wearing trousers, bidding adieu to the shorts \u2014 their traditional uniform with white half-sleeved shirt for decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader said it was his wife\u2019s January remark \u201cAren\u2019t the RSS oldies ashamed to wear half-pants in public?\u201d that embarrassed the Hindu organistaion. Then they started scouting for the pants and finally decided to go with the pants from this year for Dasara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24324\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rss-3.jpg\" alt=\"rss\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cRabri Devi\u2019s comment forced the change in RSS\u2019 dress code,\u201d Lalu said.<br \/>\nLalu Yadav also tweeted that the RSS would similarly be forced to change its mindset. \u201cRight now, we have forced them to wear trousers\u2026 but their thinking also needs a transformation\u2026 we will force them to shun weapons and would not allow them to spread venom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rabri Devi had earlier faced criticism from several top leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party, including union ministers, for her comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A senior BJP leader and Bihar\u2019s former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi had even ridiculed her, saying, \u201cShe is a woman with a mindset of the 19th century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In March, the RSS announced that its members would do away with the traditional khaki shorts and wear the brown trousers with white shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RJD chief Lalu Prasad credited his wife and former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi for the change in the RSS\u2019s dress code from khaki shorts to trousers. It may be noted that from Dasara onwards the RSS men have started wearing brown pants in place of Khakhi cheddis and they are also planning to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4137,9444,9443,9118,9441,243,9442],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-dasara","tag-half-pants","tag-lalu-prasad","tag-pants","tag-rabri-devi","tag-rss","tag-uniform"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rabridevi.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","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=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}