{"id":263390,"date":"2022-11-26T23:14:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=263390"},"modified":"2022-11-26T23:14:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T23:14:00","slug":"mk-stalins-party-worker-sets-himself-on-fire-over-hindi-imposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/11\/26\/mk-stalins-party-worker-sets-himself-on-fire-over-hindi-imposition\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Stalin&#8217;s Party Worker Sets Himself On Fire Over &#8220;Hindi Imposition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"MK Stalin's Party Worker Sets Himself On Fire Over 'Hindi Imposition'\" alt=\"MK Stalin's Party Worker Sets Himself On Fire Over 'Hindi Imposition'\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2022-06\/ars722ac_police-generic_625x300_14_June_22.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The police said they have recovered a note written by the elderly DMK worker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">Chennai: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>An elderly DMK worker on Saturday set himself on fire near the party office in Salem district in protest against &#8220;Hindi imposition&#8221;, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>Thangavel, 85, a former DMK farmers&#8217; wing worker, arrived at the party office and raised slogans against &#8220;Hindi imposition&#8221;. 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Thangavel, 85, a former DMK farmers&#8217; wing worker, arrived at the party office and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[315861,315862],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}