{"id":65195,"date":"2017-03-01T05:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=65195"},"modified":"2017-03-01T05:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T05:03:55","slug":"brahmins-want-reservations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/brahmins-want-reservations\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahmins want reservations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gujarati Brahmins are now demanding caste-based reservation in the state assembly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Brahmin community in state has demanded reservation in the assembly ahead of upcoming assembly elections, according to a report in Nav Gujarat Samay .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to a Gujarat Brahmasamaj leader, &#8220;Brahmin community constitutes less than 10 per cent of the state&#8217;s population, which is why they are neglected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65196 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/reservation_story647_081915040407.jpg\" alt=\"Brahmins want reservations\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The leader demands, &#8220;In the upcoming elections Brahmins should get 19 out of the 182 assembly seats in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yagnesh Dave, General Secretary of Gujarat Brahmasamaj (State level) and Convener of Brahma Vikas Aayog says, &#8220;All political parties tend to offer assembly seats to other castes in proportion to their population but when it comes to Brahmasamaj the things are different&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gujarat Brahmasamaj has also threatened to boycott political parties in the upcoming elections if their demands are not fulfilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gujarati Brahmins are now demanding caste-based reservation in the state assembly. The Brahmin community in state has demanded reservation in the assembly ahead of upcoming assembly elections, according to a report in Nav Gujarat Samay . According to a Gujarat Brahmasamaj leader, &#8220;Brahmin community constitutes less than 10 per cent of the state&#8217;s population, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[4345,23490,24761,34112,34116,34114,34118,34113,34117,34115,774],"class_list":["post-65195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-assembly-elections","tag-brahmin-community","tag-brahmins","tag-brahmins-want-reservations","tag-demanded-reservation","tag-demanding-caste","tag-gujarat-brahmasamaj-leader","tag-gujarati-brahmins","tag-nav-gujarat-samay","tag-reservation","tag-reservations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Brahmins-want-reservations.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65195","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=65195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}