{"id":19798,"date":"2011-11-25T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/?guid=7210af2ac3bae22065e52fd9a25f036c"},"modified":"2011-11-25T11:20:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:20:06","slug":"union-minister-sharad-pawar-assaulted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2011\/11\/25\/union-minister-sharad-pawar-assaulted\/","title":{"rendered":"Union minister Sharad Pawar assaulted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, nov 24: A man has slapped agriculture minister Sharad Pawar in the face, apparently to draw attention to rising food prices.<\/p>\n<p>Sharad Pawar was talking to reporters at a political function Thursday when the man attacked him. TV news reports said the man was shouting slogans about rising food prices.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage showed the man brandishing a knife as he was dragged away by security officials and Pawar`s aides. CNN-IBN TV reported that he was detained by police.<\/p>\n<p>Pawar was not seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Such incidents have become increasingly common in India, where ministers and other officials have had shoes thrown at them and their offices ransacked by angry citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The incidents have usually been over political decisions, corruption and real or perceived injustices.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/11\/union-minister-sharad-pawar-assaulted\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/11\/union-minister-sharad-pawar-assaulted\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, nov 24: A man has slapped agriculture minister Sharad Pawar in the face,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2011\/11\/union-minister-sharad-pawar-assaulted\/\">more <span>&#187;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[61,330],"class_list":["post-19798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-brief-news","tag-kanglaonline-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19903,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions\/19903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}