{"id":20267,"date":"2016-08-16T06:08:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=20267"},"modified":"2016-08-16T06:08:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T06:08:49","slug":"english-i-am-a-vip-what-an-odisha-min-said-to-security-officer-tying-his-shoelaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=20267","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->I am a VIP: What an Odisha min said to security officer tying his shoelaces<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->Odisha cabinet minister Jogendra Behera\u2019s personal security officer (PSO) was seen tying his shoelaces during Independence Day celebration in Keonjhar on Monday, inviting criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Behera was the chief guest at the Independence Day celebration at the district headquarter town and hoisted the tricolour. After unfurling the national flag his PSO was seen tying his shoelaces.<\/p>\n<p>After the local news channels aired the video, the state micro, small and medium enterprises minister said, \u201cI am a VIP. I have hoisted the flag, he (PSO) has not done it.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"inarticle_wrapper_div\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"twitter-video twitter-video-rendered\" data-tweet-id=\"765364634119397376\"><\/div>\n<p>The incident and subsequent statement of the minister faced criticism from many quarters including the civil society members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA government employee tying shoelaces of the minister shows existence of British rulers\u2019 mindset in Odisha,\u201d said Prahallad Singh, an advocate.<\/p>\n<p>There was no comment by the government on the incident.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odisha cabinet minister Jogendra Behera\u2019s personal security officer (PSO) was seen tying his shoelaces during Independence Day celebration in Keonjhar on Monday, inviting criticism. Behera was the chief guest at the Independence Day celebration at the district headquarter town and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20269,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/20269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}