{"id":47869,"date":"2022-08-26T19:10:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/india-ruling-party-mp-t-raja-singh-arrested-over-prophet-remarks-amid-protests"},"modified":"2022-08-26T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T10:10:20","slug":"india-ruling-party-legislator-arrested-over-prophet-remarks-amid-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47869","title":{"rendered":"India ruling party legislator arrested over prophet remarks amid protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T Raja Singh suspended earlier this week for hate speech after allegedly abusive comments<\/p>\n<p>Police in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have arrested a suspended leader of India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) for making allegedly abusive remarks about the prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested T Raja Singh, 45, on Thursday after thousands of Muslims took to the streets in the city protesting against his speech.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/india-ruling-party-mp-t-raja-singh-arrested-over-prophet-remarks-amid-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T Raja Singh suspended earlier this week for hate speech after allegedly abusive commentsPolice in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad have arrested a suspended leader of India\u2019s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) for making allegedly abusive remark&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3155,"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":[458,516,62,447,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/47869","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\/3155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47870,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47869\/revisions\/47870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}