{"id":21001,"date":"2022-10-28T20:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=21001"},"modified":"2022-10-28T20:20:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:50:20","slug":"kharge-bhakti-in-politics-leads-to-dictatorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/10\/28\/kharge-bhakti-in-politics-leads-to-dictatorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Kharge: &#8216;Bhakti&#8217; in Politics Leads to Dictatorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday drew a distinction in &#8220;Bhakti&#8221; in religion and politics and how it was dangerous in the latter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship&#8221;, he said in a tweet after visiting the B.R. Ambedkar Memorial here to pay tribute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also visited the mazaar of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad to pay tribute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;A revolutionary freedom fighter and India&#8217;s First Education Minister, he believed in our country&#8217;s democratic and secular credentials and strongly opposed the idea of partition on religious lines,&#8221; he said in another tweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kharge, who took charge as the new Congress chief on Wednesday, said that the BJP and the RSS are &#8220;attempting to replace the Baba Saheb&#8217;s Constitution with Sangh Constitution&#8221; but his Congress will not let this happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday drew a distinction in &#8220;Bhakti&#8221; in religion and politics and how it was dangerous in the latter. &#8220;Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship&#8221;, he said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","category-nation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21003,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001\/revisions\/21003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}