{"id":88608,"date":"2022-11-10T10:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88608"},"modified":"2022-11-10T10:37:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T05:07:47","slug":"in-the-wake-of-kamal-naths-attendance-at-a-sikh-event-controversy-erupts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/in-the-wake-of-kamal-naths-attendance-at-a-sikh-event-controversy-erupts\/","title":{"rendered":"In the wake of Kamal Nath&#8217;s attendance at a Sikh event, controversy erupts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark>Congress lea<\/mark>der Kamal Nath&#8217;s attendance at a Sikh function in Indore has sparked controversy, with Ragi Manpreet Singh Kanpuri criticizing the organizers. In the aftermath of Nath&#8217;s departure, a group of community members &#8220;purified&#8221; the venue with holy water led by a local BJP leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video posted on social media on Wednesday purportedly showed a furious Kanpuri obliquely referencing the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. According to eyewitnesses, the organizers gave mementos to politicians, which delayed the kirtan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MP Narottam Mishra, a BJP leader and minister of home, called the incident &#8220;shameful&#8221;. A SIT was asked by the Delhi High Court in January to file a report on a case involving Kamal Nath and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. There was no evidence that Nath had committed any crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Kamal Nath&#8217;s attendance at a Sikh function in Indore has sparked controversy, with Ragi Manpreet Singh Kanpuri criticizing the organizers. In the aftermath of Nath&#8217;s departure, a group of community members &#8220;purified&#8221; the venue with holy water led by a local BJP leader. A video posted on social media on Wednesday purportedly showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88610,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88608\/revisions\/88610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}