{"id":88901,"date":"2022-11-21T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/?p=88901"},"modified":"2022-11-21T14:23:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T08:53:52","slug":"a-sign-of-humanity-amid-savarkar-row-raut-gandhis-olive-branches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/a-sign-of-humanity-amid-savarkar-row-raut-gandhis-olive-branches\/","title":{"rendered":"A sign of humanity&#8230;&#8217;: Amid Savarkar row, Raut-Gandhi&#8217;s olive branches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the row triggered by Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment last week about VD Savarkar, Sanjay Raut &#8211; a senior leader in ex Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray&#8217;s Shiv Sena faction, which is allied with the Congress and Sharad Pawar&#8217;s Nationalist Congress Party &#8211; seemed to offer Gandhi an olive branch. Raut said he had inquired after his health &#8211; the Sena strongman was in a Mumbai jail for over three months in connection with a money laundering case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rahul ji called at night even though he was busy with (the yatra)&#8230; asked about my health. &#8216;We were worried about you,&#8217; he said. It is only human to feel sad that a political colleague was framed in a false case and tortured for 110 days in jail,&#8221; Raut tweeted in Marathi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Rajya Sabha MP also posted a longer English note, writing: &#8220;In spite of strong differences of opinion on some issues, inquiring about your political colleague is a sign of humanity&#8230; in times of political bitterness such gestures are becoming rare&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the row triggered by Rahul Gandhi&#8217;s comment last week about VD Savarkar, Sanjay Raut &#8211; a senior leader in ex Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray&#8217;s Shiv Sena faction, which is allied with the Congress and Sharad Pawar&#8217;s Nationalist Congress Party &#8211; seemed to offer Gandhi an olive branch. Raut said he had inquired after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88901","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\/88901","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=88901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88903,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88901\/revisions\/88903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dailypunjabtimes.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}