{"id":68202,"date":"2017-03-13T13:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=68202"},"modified":"2017-03-13T13:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T08:25:49","slug":"up-will-have-muslim-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/up-will-have-muslim-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"UP will have Muslim Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP has decided that it will have a minority Minister in the cabinet for UP. Muslims will get representation in the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, though the party did not field any candidate from the community in the state assembly elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party got an unprecedented mandate on Saturday in India\u2019s most populous and politically crucial state, winning 312 seats in the 403-member assembly. The plan to induct a Muslim minister is aimed at reaching out to the community that is not known to be a BJP vote base.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-68206\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/01-1362128203-narednra-modi-1.jpg\" alt=\"UP will have Muslim Minister\" width=\"675\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The BJP\u2019s outreach is driven by its assessment that a section of Muslims, especially women and youth, has embraced Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s development agenda and happy with the party\u2019s stand against triple talaq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf a Muslim MLA is not there, an MLC (member of legislative council) will be there \u2026 there will be Muslim representatives in the government.\u201d Union urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former BJP president plays a key role in the party\u2019s decision-making process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BJP has decided that it will have a minority Minister in the cabinet for UP. Muslims will get representation in the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, though the party did not field any candidate from the community in the state assembly elections. The party got an unprecedented mandate on Saturday in India\u2019s most populous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[35771,4345,350,510,11923,13537,35770,94,309,10084,35772,634,4322,3179],"class_list":["post-68202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-312-seats","tag-assembly-elections","tag-bjp","tag-india","tag-mla","tag-mlc","tag-muslim-minister","tag-narendra-modi","tag-saturday","tag-triple-talaq","tag-union-urban-development-minister","tag-up","tag-uttar-pradesh","tag-venkaiah-naidu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Union-Minister-of-Urban-Development-M.-Venkaiah-Naidu.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68202","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=68202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}