{"id":247531,"date":"2024-08-31T02:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=247531"},"modified":"2024-08-31T02:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:38:17","slug":"khandu-slams-banerjee-for-remarks-on-ne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/khandu-slams-banerjee-for-remarks-on-ne\/","title":{"rendered":"Khandu slams Banerjee for remarks on NE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 30 Aug:<\/strong> Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday claimed that his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s recent comment on the Northeast region was &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and went against the spirit of unity of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also alleged that the TMC supremo&#8217;s comment exposed her &#8220;politics of anarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing a TMC students&#8217; wing rally in Kolkata on Wednesday, Banerjee said, &#8220;If Bengal is set on fire, Assam, Northeast, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Delhi will also be affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her comment came against the backdrop of widespread protests against the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The unsavoury remarks on the Northeast by the West Bengal CM are highly irresponsible and show her desperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0It exposes her politics of anarchy and goes against the spirit of unity in our country. I strongly condemn this,&#8221; Khandu posted on X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that the people of the Northeast region are peace-loving and &#8220;strongly deplore those who foment hostilities and divisions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s time to move beyond rhetoric that divides and focus on building a stronger, more harmonious nation,&#8221; Khandu wrote on the microblogging site.(PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 30 Aug: Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Friday claimed that his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee&#8217;s recent comment on the Northeast region was &#8220;irresponsible&#8221; and went against the spirit of unity of the country. He also alleged that the TMC supremo&#8217;s comment exposed her &#8220;politics of anarchy.&#8221; Addressing a TMC students&#8217; wing rally in [&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-247531","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\/247531","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=247531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}