{"id":40851,"date":"2018-09-01T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=40851"},"modified":"2018-09-01T11:59:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T11:59:28","slug":"rahul-leaves-for-mt-kailash-cong-bjp-spar-over-his-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rahul-leaves-for-mt-kailash-cong-bjp-spar-over-his-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul leaves for Mt Kailash; Cong, BJP spar over his route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nCongress chief Rahul Gandhi today began his 12-day journey to holy Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in China, taking the Nepal route to the pilgrimage.<br \/>\nThe choice of route led to political sparring back home with the ruling BJP asking why Gandhi needed a Chinese perspective on everything and the Congress retorting with this query, \u201cDoes Congress president need Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s permission to undertake the pilgrimage to the abode of Lord Shiva?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moments after BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra wondered why Gandhi had left for China via Nepal to visit the holy mountain, Congress fielded its chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala to counter him, \u201cLet the BJP leaders also take the toughest terrain to Kailash Mansarovar like Congress president is taking. Let them also go and pray for the country rather than keep playing their petty politics. If they do not have the courage to undertake an arduous pilgrimage, let them not stand in the way of a devotee and his Lord. They will be cursed if they try and create obstacles in the journey of a worshipper to his God.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Congress chief Rahul Gandhi today began his 12-day journey to holy Mount Kailash and Lake Mansarovar in China, taking the Nepal route to the pilgrimage. The choice of route led to political sparring back home with the ruling BJP asking why Gandhi needed a Chinese perspective on everything and the Congress retorting with [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40852,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40853,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40851\/revisions\/40853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}