{"id":84354,"date":"2017-05-17T20:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=84354"},"modified":"2017-05-17T20:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:55:20","slug":"rajini-avoids-questions-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/rajini-avoids-questions-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajini avoids questions on BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rumours of Rajinikanth planning to join politics have increased ever since he decided to hold his first meet-and-greet session with fans after eight years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajini further added fuel to the fire on day one of the four-day event being held in Chennai, when he said, &#8220;If God wills it, I will enter politics tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was followed by union minister Pon Radhakrishnan\u2019s statement that Bhartiya Janata Party will welcome Rajinikanth\u2019s entry into politics or to the party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84356 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/modi-rajinikanth.jpg\" alt=\"Rajini avoids questions on BJP\" width=\"700\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Rajinikanth was asked about Radhakrishan\u2019s comment on the third day of the meet with fans on Wednesday, the megastar didn\u2019t rule out the possibility and said, &#8220;Whatever I had to say I said, now I have nothing more to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajinikanth&#8217;s refusal to give a concrete response to the query has left many wondering if the superstar has actually not overlooked the possibility of joining the ruling party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The megastar had also previously asked his fans not to be disappointed if he doesn\u2019t join politics and also regretted his decision to support the DMK during the 1996 assembly elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours of Rajinikanth planning to join politics have increased ever since he decided to hold his first meet-and-greet session with fans after eight years. Rajini further added fuel to the fire on day one of the four-day event being held in Chennai, when he said, &#8220;If God wills it, I will enter politics tomorrow.&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[350,6303,43546,572,772],"class_list":["post-84354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp","tag-politics","tag-rajini-political-entry","tag-rajinikant","tag-tamilnadu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Rajini-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84354","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=84354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}