{"id":8896,"date":"2016-06-24T01:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=8893&amp;preview_id=8893"},"modified":"2016-06-24T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T01:22:01","slug":"bjp-challenges-bihar-ban-vhp-meet-patna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=8896","title":{"rendered":"BJP challenges Bihar to ban VHP meet in Patna &#8211; The Economic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PATNA: The BJP on Thursday challenged the Bihar government to ban ongoing meeting of the VHP here.The Bharatiya Janata Party made its dare after a few ministers including Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav threatened to take action against VHP leader Pravin Togadia if he deliver a communal or &#8216;hate&#8217; speech during ongoing meeting of the VHP here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;BJP challenges the state government to ban the VHP meeting,&#8221; senior BJP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi told media here, claiming the ministers have been attacking the VHP and Togadia for self-publicity.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier state Minorities Welfare Minister Abdul Ghafoor, of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, said that the VHP and Togadia have a single point agenda of creating social division and hatred.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The VHP is closely associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi too is a product of the VHP,&#8221; he claimed.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, when Lalu Prasad&#8217;s RJD was in power in Bihar, he did not allow Togadia to enter the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/bjp-challenges-bihar-to-ban-vhp-meet-in-patna\/articleshow\/52892145.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BJP challenges Bihar to ban VHP meet in Patna \u2013 The Economic Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATNA: The BJP on Thursday challenged the Bihar government to ban ongoing meeting of the VHP here.The Bharatiya Janata Party made its dare after a few ministers including Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav threatened to take action against VHP leader Pravin Togadia if he deliver a communal or &#8216;hate&#8217; speech during ongoing meeting of the [&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":[18],"tags":[869,1704,1054,1705,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896"}],"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=8896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}