{"id":1797,"date":"2018-11-15T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2018-11-15T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:18:41","slug":"ex-law-minister-hr-bhardwaj-speaks-out-rahul-gandhi-is-his-target-once-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/15\/ex-law-minister-hr-bhardwaj-speaks-out-rahul-gandhi-is-his-target-once-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-law minister HR Bhardwaj speaks out; Rahul Gandhi is his target once again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former law minister HR Bhardwaj\u00a0said\u00a0president Rahul Gandhi has to learn a lot and will become a leader only when the people accept him.\u00a0\u201cWhatever he does in the name of religion, is always wrong \u2026. Congress fails because it indulges in the politics of religion. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and even I was here. But we never did politics in the name of religion &#8230;\u201d, said HR Bhardwaj.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Bhardwaj has been critical of his party and Gandhi. \u201cRahul is a young man. He has to lead the young people. But he is not in touch with the senior people, he doesn\u2019t show any inclination. So he is also out of touch,\u201d said HR Bhardwaj.\u00a0He has also criticised other senior leaders of the Congress party, including former Union minister P Chidambaram, in the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1802\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1802\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1802 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pak-1-300x293.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pak-1-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pak-1.png 563w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rahul Gandhi becomes HR Bhardwaj&#8217;s target once again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former law minister HR Bhardwaj\u00a0said\u00a0president Rahul Gandhi has to learn a lot and will become a leader only when the people accept him.\u00a0\u201cWhatever he does in the name of religion, is always wrong \u2026. Congress fails because it indulges in the politics of religion. Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and even I was here. But we &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2223,2224],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news","tag-hr-bhardwaj","tag-rahul-gandhi"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1803,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}