{"id":497379,"date":"2023-12-28T14:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=497379"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:09:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T08:39:11","slug":"shashi-tharoor-ram-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/shashi-tharoor-ram-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Shashi Tharoor says he would like to visit Ram Temple but not on the day of the inauguration, nor before the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amid intense politicking over attending the grand Ram mandir inauguration on January 22, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday clarified that he would love to visit the Ram Temple one day but not on the day of the inauguration. The Thiruvanthpuram MP said the day will also not come before the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections. He added that his visit to the Ram Temple should not be interpreted politically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A day before, Shashi Tharoor said to him religion is a personal attribute and not the government\u2019s business. He said as a Hindu, he saw a temple as place to connect with the divine rather than a stage for political theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | On party leadership invited to Ayodhya Ram temple inauguration, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says, &quot;&#8230;Putting the Congress leadership in a box and saying that if you go that means you are playing into the hands of the BJP. If you don&#39;t go that means you are anti-Hindu.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cmb15Pp4vO\">pic.twitter.com\/Cmb15Pp4vO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1740245730680565900?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ram Temple invitations to the Congress\u2019s top leaders have put the party in a quandary as its UDF allies in Kerala and several Muslim bodies are not in favour of Congress leaders attending the event. The Congress leadership has also not committed on their stance \u2013 on whether no Congress Leader would attend the January 22 event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The editorial of Suprabhatham, the mouthpiece of the EK faction of the Samastha Kerala Jamiyyathul Ulama (SAMASTHA) read the Congress stance seems to be that it wants to attend the Ram temple event to prevent the erosion of its Hindu vote base in north India especially with Lok Sabha Elections approaching. It is this soft Hindutva stance that has taken the party which ruled India for 36 years down to its present condition. The Congress Leadership may not know this but the people of India do. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reacting to the row, Shashi Tharoor said every individual should be free to take this decision. He said personally he believed religious faith is a personal matter and should not be seen politically. He hoped each of the invitees is left free to make personal choice, rather than be described as anti Hindu if they don\u2019t go or playing into the BJP\u2019s hands if they do attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shashi Tharoor said every individual should be free to take this decision. He said personally he believed religious faith is a personal matter and should not be seen politically. He hoped each of the invitees is left free to make personal choice, rather than be described as anti Hindu if they don\u2019t go or playing into the BJP\u2019s hands if they do attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":497382,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Shashi Tharoor says he would like to visit Ram Temple but not on the day of the inauguration, nor before the elections","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[58486,106],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2023\/12\/28140650\/Shashi-Tharoor-1.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497379"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=497379"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=497379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->