{"id":500811,"date":"2024-02-04T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-04T07:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=500811"},"modified":"2024-02-04T14:13:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-04T08:43:52","slug":"meenakshi-lekhi-kerala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/meenakshi-lekhi-kerala\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi lashes out at Kerala crowd for not chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai, says India not your mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi lashed out at the crowd in Kerala for not chanting \u201cBharat Mata Ki Jai\u201d and lost her cool asking the audience if India is not their mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at the youth conclave in Kerala\u2019s Kozhikode, she was seen upset when a section of the audience was not chanting the slogan despite her repeated request to do so. A visibly irked Lekhi, in fact, asked a lady wearing a yellow dress in the audience to leave the house.<\/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\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kerala?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kerala<\/a>&#39;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kozhikode?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Kozhikode<\/a>, Union Minister &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BJP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BJP<\/a> leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MeenakshiLekhi?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MeenakshiLekhi<\/a> on Saturday lashed out at a section of the audience at a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/YouthConclave?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#YouthConclave<\/a> here for not chanting the &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BharatMataKiJai?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BharatMataKiJai<\/a>&#39; slogan despite she repeatedly asked them to do so.<br><br>A visibly irked Lekhi asked them whether\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9DJpStAvtz\">pic.twitter.com\/9DJpStAvtz<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hate Detector \ud83d\udd0d (@HateDetectors) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HateDetectors\/status\/1753778631602798907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>People on social media platforms have widely shared a video criticising the Union Minister for her arrogance and imposing nationalism. Lekhi could be seen humiliating a woman in the audience by asking her to leave the conclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concluding her speech, the senior BJP leader chanted &#8220;Bharat Mata Ki Jai&#8221; and asked the audience to repeat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the response from the audience was not as expected, she asked whether Bharat was not their home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture asked the audience if Bharat is only her mother or everyone\u2019s mother. She asked to tell me if there was any doubt. No doubt? Enthusiasm needs to be expressed, she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP leader repeated the slogan and said that the response from the left-side audience was still poor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pointing at a woman in the audience, Lekhi asked the lady in a yellow dress to stand up and not look at the other side. This is how I am going to speak to you, she said. Lekhi further said she is going to ask a straight question. Bharat is not your mother, Lekhi asked. She then asked why this attitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lekhi again chanted Bharat Mata Ki Jai. The woman was still standing idle, doing nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lekhi after her repeated request to chant the slogan, the lady in the audience did not do anything, to which Lekhi asked her to leave the conclave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also made it clear that someone who does not feel proud of the nation and who finds it embarrassing to speak about India, need not be part of the youth conclave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visibly irked Lekhi, in fact, asked a lady wearing a yellow dress in the audience to leave the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":500814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Union Minister Meenakshi Lekhi lashes out at Kerala crowd for not chanting Bharat Mata Ki Jai, says India not your mother","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[615,725,160901],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/02\/04125800\/meenakshi-lekhi-at-calicut_1200x900xt-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\/500811"}],"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=500811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500811"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=500811"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=500811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->