{"id":96616,"date":"2017-07-06T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=96616"},"modified":"2017-07-06T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T04:52:37","slug":"kovind-dalit-nahi-hai-lalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/kovind-dalit-nahi-hai-lalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kovind Dalit nahi hai-Lalu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RJD chief Lalu Prasad questioned the Dalit identity of BJP-led NDA presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind and claimed that Kovind is not a Dalit but an OBC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Kovind Dalit nahi hai, OBC hai,&#8221; Lalu said, addressing hundreds of party leaders and workers at a function to mark the 21st foundation day of his Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96617 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/621070_thump.jpg\" alt=\"Lalu\" width=\"660\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lalu said Kovind has been made a candidate by the BJP due to the upcoming Gujarat assembly polls.&#8221;Kovind belongs to Koli caste, which is OBC in Gujarat and constitutes 18 per cent of the vote there,&#8221; Lalu said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lalu said the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-backed BJP has nothing to do with Dalit interests.&#8221;The BJP has been doing politics by declaring Kovind as Dalit and using his name for consolidating votes in Gujarat,&#8221; he alleged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lalu reiterated that he and his party never compromised with its principles and ideology. &#8220;Even if the Congress had asked me to support Kovind, I would not have supported him,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RJD chief Lalu Prasad questioned the Dalit identity of BJP-led NDA presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind and claimed that Kovind is not a Dalit but an OBC. &#8220;Kovind Dalit nahi hai, OBC hai,&#8221; Lalu said, addressing hundreds of party leaders and workers at a function to mark the 21st foundation day of his Rashtriya Janata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[17304,48621,48620,9443,1536,46944,5292],"class_list":["post-96616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp-led-nda","tag-dalit-identity","tag-kovind-dalit-nahi-hai","tag-lalu-prasad","tag-presidential-nominee","tag-ram-nath-kovind","tag-rjd-chief"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Kovindh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96616","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=96616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}