{"id":102621,"date":"2017-11-20T18:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=102621"},"modified":"2017-11-20T18:55:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:25:51","slug":"adityanath-says-rahul-gandhi-doesnt-even-know-sit-properly-temple-hindu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=102621","title":{"rendered":"Adityanath says Rahul Gandhi doesn\u2019t even know how to sit properly in a temple | The Hindu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Uttar Pradesh\u00a0<\/strong>Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s temple visits, saying the Congress vice-president did not even know how to sit properly in a temple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Uss bechare ko yeh tak nahi maloom hai ki mandir mein kaise baitha jata hai.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>[Poor fellow does not even know how to sit properly in a temple.) When he visited the Kashi Vishwanath Mandir [in Varanasi], he sat like he was performing\u00a0<em>namaz<\/em>. The priest had to tell him that this is a temple, not a mosque,\u201d Mr. Adityanath said in response to a question at the Shikhar Sammelan organised in Lucknow by\u00a0<em>ABP News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Adityanath termed the Congress\u2019s recent overtures to temples pretence. He said it was under the UPA government that an affidavit was filed in the Supreme Court saying that gods Rama and Krishna were imaginary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they are imaginary, then what is Rahul Gandhi doing in temples? I am equally amused and saddened when he visits temples,\u201d Mr. Adityanath said. The CM also joked about Mr. Gandhi\u2019s impending promotion to Congress chief, saying it was a pathway to a \u201cCongress\u00a0<em>mukt<\/em>\u00a0Bharat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress is fulfilling Gandhiji\u2019s dreams. To fulfill the dream of Congress-<em>mukt<\/em>Bharat, it is necessary to have Rahul Gandhi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttar Pradesh\u00a0Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday took a dig at Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s temple visits, saying the Congress vice-president did not even know how to sit properly in a temple. \u201cUss bechare ko yeh tak nahi maloom hai ki mandir mein kaise baitha jata hai.\u00a0\u00a0[Poor fellow does not even know how to sit properly in [&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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102621"}],"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=102621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}