{"id":66315,"date":"2017-03-05T18:47:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=66315"},"modified":"2017-03-06T11:50:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T06:20:01","slug":"sack-rape-minister-says-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/sack-rape-minister-says-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Sack the rape Minister says Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik has written to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, asking why rape-accused minister Gayatri Prajapati is has a place in his cabinet. Mr Prajapati has been accused of gang-raping a women for two years and a case was registered against him following the orders of the Supreme Court and his passport was revoked. In face of a possible arrest, the Samajwadi Party candidate from high profile Amethi has gone missing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66316 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/819842462-AkhileshYadav2_6.jpg\" alt=\" Sack the rape Minister says Governor \" width=\"430\" height=\"266\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;His remaining a minister in the cabinet and no action being taken against him raises serious questions on democratic sanctity, constitutional integrity and morality,&#8221; read a communique from the Governor&#8217;s House. The Samajwadi Party has been caught in a catch 22 situation over Mr Prajapati. The opposition BJP and BSP have been continuously blaming the state&#8217;s ruling party for the free run Mr Prajapati is getting. Mayawati has called it a &#8220;weakness&#8221; of Akhilesh Yadav and BJP&#8217;s Smriti Irani has called the party a &#8220;protector of rapists&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since the rape case was filed against him, the opposition BJP and BSP have been continuously blaming the state&#8217;s ruling party for the free run Mr Prajapati is getting &#8211; pushing the Chief Minister to cancel a programme where the two were expected to share dais.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Samajwadi Party leaders indicate that there are concerns that Mr Prajapati&#8217;s arrest may further play into the hands of the opposition amid the mammoth seven-phase assembly elections in the state.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-66317 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/gayatri-647_030317100622.jpg\" alt=\"Sack the rape Minister says Governor \" width=\"434\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik has written to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, asking why rape-accused minister Gayatri Prajapati is has a place in his cabinet. Mr Prajapati has been accused of gang-raping a women for two years and a case was registered against him following the orders of the Supreme Court and his passport was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[15585,350,10975,11073,8217,4251,3047,34833,34834,34832,5460,17193,34831],"class_list":["post-66315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-amethi","tag-bjp","tag-bsp","tag-chief-minister-akhilesh-yadav","tag-governor","tag-mayawati","tag-minister","tag-minister-gayatri-prajapati","tag-mr-prajapati","tag-ram-naik","tag-samajwadi-party","tag-smriti-irani","tag-uttar-pradesh-governor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/up-governer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66315","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=66315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}