{"id":141367,"date":"2020-11-06T00:28:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=141367"},"modified":"2020-11-06T00:28:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:58:40","slug":"state-bjp-condemns-goswamis-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/11\/06\/state-bjp-condemns-goswamis-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"State BJP condemns Goswami&#8217;s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 5:<\/strong> The state BJP on Thursday condemned the arrest of Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami by the Mumbai Police and termed the act &#8220;murder of democracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bjp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141371 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bjp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bjp.jpg 340w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/bjp-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Addressing a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club here, state BJP spokesman Dominic Tadar said that &#8220;Shiv Sena has changed its strategy of murdering democracy after being misguided by the INC&#8221; and is now silencing journalists for asking questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tadar said that the &#8220;son of the soil&#8221; (Goswami) has been falsely implicated by the police at the behest of the Maharashtra government under its chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, which Tadar said is &#8220;condemnable and intolerable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When asked why the BJP, which has remained silent over various instances of atrocities against journalists even in the Northeast, was taking sides with Goswami, Tadar said, &#8220;We cannot remain silent when democracy is being murdered so openly.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 5: The state BJP on Thursday condemned the arrest of Republic TV editor Arnab Goswami by the Mumbai Police and termed the act &#8220;murder of democracy.&#8221; Addressing a press conference at the Arunachal Press Club here, state BJP spokesman Dominic Tadar said that &#8220;Shiv Sena has changed its strategy of murdering democracy after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-141367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}