{"id":74483,"date":"2017-04-01T15:18:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T09:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=74483"},"modified":"2017-04-01T15:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-01T09:49:58","slug":"rajini-says-no-to-politics-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rajini-says-no-to-politics-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajini says no to politics again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acting Legend Rajinikanth said — although not in so many words — that he is not joining politics. The southern star was asked if there was a political agenda to the Chennai meeting of his fans on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“No, there won’t be any announcement on politics. The fans are meeting because it has been a long time,” said the actor, who met Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak here earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\"Rajini<\/p>\n

He also said that he may not attend the fans’ meet. Rumours had gripped Tamil Nadu that Rajinikanth — whose fan following runs into hundreds of thousands — may take a major political step on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old icon has been wooed by political parties in the past. Most recently, he expressed support to the BJP candidate — from the Tamil film industry — in the upcoming by-election from R.K. Nagar here.<\/p>\n

In 2009, it was strongly believed that Rajinikanth would take the political plunge. But he didn’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acting Legend Rajinikanth said — although not in so many words — that he is not joining politics. The southern star was asked if there was a political agenda to the Chennai meeting of his fans on Sunday. “No, there won’t be any announcement on politics. The fans are meeting because it has been a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[350,450,1131,38307,38308,6303,11141,38309,372,74,38306,10080,1524],"class_list":["post-74483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cinema","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp","tag-chennai","tag-fans","tag-malaysian","tag-najib-razak","tag-politics","tag-prime-minister","tag-r-k-nagar","tag-rajinikanth","tag-rumours","tag-southern-star","tag-sunday","tag-tamil-nadu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/582082-rajinikanth-newest.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483","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=74483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}