{"id":62176,"date":"2024-02-27T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/why-are-you-asleep-rahul-gandhi-pleads-with-indias-low-castes-to-vote-out-modi"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:00:10","slug":"why-are-you-asleep-rahul-gandhi-pleads-with-indias-low-castes-to-vote-out-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62176","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why are you asleep?\u2019 Rahul Gandhi pleads with India\u2019s low castes to vote out Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On his 4,000-mile march across the country, congressman tells voters to wake up to the vast gulf between them and the rich<\/p>\n<p>His voice hoarse from all the speeches he had made during his 4,000-mile march across the breadth of India, Rahul Gandhi urged people at a rally in Uttar Pradesh state to think hard.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, to think hard about caste. \u201cAre there any of you Dalits or other low castes in the judiciary?\u201d the leading face of India\u2019s opposition Congress party, asked the crowd. \u201cAre any of you in the media? Do any of you own even one of India\u2019s 200 top companies? Of the civil servant class which rules this country, are any of you among them?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/why-are-you-asleep-rahul-gandhi-pleads-with-indias-low-castes-to-vote-out-modi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On his 4,000-mile march across the country, congressman tells voters to wake up to the vast gulf between them and the richHis voice hoarse from all the speeches he had made during his 4,000-mile march across the breadth of India, Rahul Gandhi urged peo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"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":[1128,62,433,1712,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dalits","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-rahul-gandhi","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\/62176","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\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62177,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62176\/revisions\/62177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}