{"id":23346,"date":"2016-10-27T13:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=23343&amp;preview_id=23343"},"modified":"2016-10-27T13:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T08:20:35","slug":"lara-trump-celebrates-deepavali-at-hindu-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=23346","title":{"rendered":"Lara Trump celebrates Deepavali at Hindu temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"body\">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s daughter-in-law Lara Trump visited the Rajdhani temple on Tuesday on the outskirts of the U.S capital, as part of the continuing efforts of the campaign to reach out to the Indian American community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">Indian Americans are predominantly supporters of the Democratic Party. Mr. Trump became the first presidential candidate to attend an Indian American event early this month. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has not attended any community event during the campaign, but there are several Indian Americans who are associated with her campaign. \u201cDemocrats talk a lot for India, Republicans do a lot for India,\u201d said Shekhar Tiwari, who was part of the group that organised the Deepavali event at the temple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">According to the original plan, Ivanka Trump, the candidate\u2019s daughter, was to attend the event. \u201cYour religion is beautiful\u2026 This country was founded on the principle of freedom of religion and it is so amazing that we have such incredible religions within the United States of America,\u201d she told the gathering.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tough on immigration <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u201cMany of you who have immigrated legally into this country understand it is a very tough process\u2026 It is not fair that other people are allowed to come in by jumping over a border and our tax dollars are taking care of them,\u201d she said, explaining her father-in-law\u2019s tough position on immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"loading\">Rajesh Gooty, a community activist who organised the event, said: \u201cAmericans of all faiths celebrate Christmas, so is Deepavali is celebrated by all Indians irrespective of faith and brings renewed energy and purpose to Hindus world over.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"vuukle_env\"><a id=\"comments\" name=\"comments\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump\u2019s daughter-in-law Lara Trump visited the Rajdhani temple on Tuesday on the outskirts of the U.S capital, as part of the continuing efforts of the campaign to reach out to the Indian American community. Indian Americans are predominantly supporters of the Democratic Party. Mr. Trump became the first presidential candidate to [&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":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23346"}],"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=23346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}