{"id":289397,"date":"2017-06-24T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/?p=112614"},"modified":"2017-06-24T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T12:28:17","slug":"not-a-masterstroke-bjp-picked-kalam-for-president-after-2002-riots-kovind-after-attacks-on-dalits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/06\/24\/not-a-masterstroke-bjp-picked-kalam-for-president-after-2002-riots-kovind-after-attacks-on-dalits\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a masterstroke: BJP picked Kalam for President after 2002 riots, Kovind after attacks on Dalits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 10, 2002, the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced its decision to nominate the scientist APJ Abdul Kalam as its Presidential candidate. This caught the Opposition off-guard. The media hailed it as if it was a masterstroke, a descriptor that is now employed to praise every decision that Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/not-masterstroke-bjp-picked-kalam-president-2002-riots-kovind-attacks-dalits\/\">Not a masterstroke: BJP picked Kalam for President after 2002 riots, Kovind after attacks on Dalits<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/\">The Sangai Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/not-masterstroke-bjp-picked-kalam-president-2002-riots-kovind-attacks-dalits\/\">http:\/\/www.thesangaiexpress.com\/not-masterstroke-bjp-picked-kalam-president-2002-riots-kovind-attacks-dalits\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 10, 2002, the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced its decision to nominate the scientist APJ Abdul Kalam as its Presidential candidate. This caught the Opposition off-guard. The media hailed it as if it was a masterstroke, a descriptor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"sangaiexpress","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3942],"tags":[14715,3951,3945],"class_list":["post-289397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-sangaiexpress","hentry","category-news","category-sangaiexpress","tag-ajaz-ashraf","tag-general-articles","tag-sangaiexpress","post_format-sangaiexpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289397","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289398,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289397\/revisions\/289398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}