{"id":10900,"date":"2019-11-09T03:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T18:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/08\/british-hindus-urged-whatsapp-messages-vote-against-labour"},"modified":"2019-11-09T03:07:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T18:07:27","slug":"british-hindus-urged-in-whatsapp-messages-to-vote-against-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10900","title":{"rendered":"British Hindus urged in WhatsApp messages to vote against Labour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warning over \u2018divisive tactics\u2019 after messages claim party is \u2018anti-India\u2019 and \u2018anti-Hindu\u2019<\/p>\n<p>British Hindus are being targeted by WhatsApp messages urging them to vote against Labour in the general election, accusing the party of being \u201canti-India\u201d and \u201canti-Hindu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The messages have also included videos by far-right anti-Muslim activists and have raised fears they are attempting to exploit tensions between British Pakistanis and Indians, as well as different religious groups.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2019\/nov\/08\/british-hindus-urged-whatsapp-messages-vote-against-labour\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warning over \u2018divisive tactics\u2019 after messages claim party is \u2018anti-India\u2019 and \u2018anti-Hindu\u2019British Hindus are being targeted by WhatsApp messages urging them to vote against Labour in the general election, accusing the party of being \u201canti-India\u201d and \u201c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[904,62,902,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-india","category-labour","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}