{"id":102539,"date":"2017-11-18T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T13:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=102539"},"modified":"2017-11-18T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T13:12:40","slug":"union-minister-says-democracy-safe-india-hindus-metro-vaartha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=102539","title":{"rendered":"Union minister says, democracy is safe in India because of Hindus | Metro Vaartha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bhopal | Union minister Giriraj Singh has said democracy is \u201csafe\u201d in the country as long as Hindus remain in the majority.<br \/>\nDelivering a lecture yesterday, the minister said social harmony and development would be \u201cin danger\u201d the day the population of the majority community starts decreasing.<br \/>\nHe said nationalism was in a \u201ckind of danger\u201d due to demographic changes.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026Democracy is safe in the country as long as majority (Hindu) population is there. The day the population of the majority community starts decreasing, the democracy, development and social harmony will be in danger,\u201d he said at the lecture on nationalism here.<br \/>\n\u201cHindu population has dipped in 54 districts in states like Uttar Pradesh, Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, besides some other states. These districts are Muslim majority and this demographic change is a threat to the unity and integrity of the country,\u201d the BJP leader said.<br \/>\nHe said a family planning law for all faiths should be enacted.<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026With all responsibility, I say that the social harmony has taken a beating and nationalism has declined (in areas) where the population of Hindus has declined,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhopal | Union minister Giriraj Singh has said democracy is \u201csafe\u201d in the country as long as Hindus remain in the majority. Delivering a lecture yesterday, the minister said social harmony and development would be \u201cin danger\u201d the day the population of the majority community starts decreasing. He said nationalism was in a \u201ckind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[2144,1152,1203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}