{"id":202141,"date":"2022-10-07T00:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202141"},"modified":"2022-10-07T00:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T18:55:49","slug":"ncw-summons-cong-leader-udit-raj-over-remarks-against-president-murmu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/07\/ncw-summons-cong-leader-udit-raj-over-remarks-against-president-murmu\/","title":{"rendered":"NCW summons Cong leader Udit Raj over remarks against President Murmu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 6 Oct:<\/strong> The National Commission for Women (NCW) has summoned Congress leader Udit Raj over his &#8220;sycophancy&#8221; remark against President Droupadi Murmu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a notice issued on Thursday, the commission asked him to appear before it on 10 October and explain his &#8220;extremely condemnable and shameful&#8221; comments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a function recently, Murmu noted that Gujarat manufactures 76 percent of salt produced in the country. &#8220;It can be said that all countrymen eat Gujarat&#8217;s salt,&#8221; she had said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The western state produces nearly 80 percent of the salt consumed in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Referring to Murmu&#8217;s remark, Udit Raj posted a strongly-worded tweet on Wednesday, targeting her. &#8220;No country should get a president like Droupadi Murmu. This is height of sycophancy. She says 70 percent of people eat Gujarat&#8217;s salt. Spend your life eating salt, then you will know the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the notice, the NCW said the commission has taken cognisance of his remark.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The comments made are extremely condemnable and shameful. The commission has sent a notice to Udit Raj. NCW has scheduled a hearing and asked Raj to appear before the commission in person on 10 October, 2022 at 3 pm,&#8221; the women&#8217;s body said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facing backlash from the BJP and other quarters over social media, the Congress leader put out a clarification on Twitter, saying his statement on President Murmu was his only and had &#8220;nothing to do with the Congress.&#8221; (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 6 Oct: The National Commission for Women (NCW) has summoned Congress leader Udit Raj over his &#8220;sycophancy&#8221; remark against President Droupadi Murmu. In a notice issued on Thursday, the commission asked him to appear before it on 10 October and explain his &#8220;extremely condemnable and shameful&#8221; comments. At a function recently, Murmu noted [&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-202141","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\/202141","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=202141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}