{"id":71402,"date":"2017-03-26T18:35:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=71402"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T08:55:27","slug":"minister-resigns-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/minister-resigns-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister resigns over charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran on Sunday resigned following charges of sexual harassment. Saseendran resigned after an audio tape of alleged sexual harassment was aired on a regional channel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71403 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/images-8.jpg\" alt=\" Minister resigns over sex charges \" width=\"527\" height=\"296\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am resigning on moral grounds. I am making it clear that all allegations charged on me is absolutely baseless. But I am now tendering resignation as it is not right on my path to continue in this position when an investigation is underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is up to the Chief Minister and government to investigate the matter and they can investigate with any agency. Also I don&#8217;t want the government to be on the back foot,&#8221; Saseendran said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-71404 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Keralacm-kUhB-621x414@LiveMint.jpg\" alt=\" Minister resigns over sex charges \" width=\"522\" height=\"348\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the matter would be thoroughly probed. A Malayalam regional channel Mangalam has aired an audio tape of the conservation between Saseendran and a woman who approached him to submit a petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala Transport Minister A.K. Saseendran on Sunday resigned following charges of sexual harassment. Saseendran resigned after an audio tape of alleged sexual harassment was aired on a regional channel. &#8220;I am resigning on moral grounds. I am making it clear that all allegations charged on me is absolutely baseless. But I am now tendering resignation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[3514,2339,34469,37388,37391,18287,34470,37389,10080],"class_list":["post-71402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-chief-minister","tag-government","tag-kerala-chief-minister","tag-kerala-transport-minister-a-k","tag-malayalam-regional-channel","tag-meanwhile","tag-pinarayi-vijayan","tag-saseendran","tag-sunday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/3-11.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71402","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=71402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}