{"id":6878,"date":"2015-09-13T06:31:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T06:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/?p=6878"},"modified":"2015-09-13T06:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T06:31:03","slug":"english-pistorius-an-inspiration-for-maharashtra-social-justice-mantri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/?p=6878","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Pistorius an inspiration for Maharashtra social justice mantri<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic champion who is serving a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, is the role model for the Maharashtra state social justice department. His picture has been displayed outside the Mantralaya cabin of minister Rajkumar Badole.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total six posters displayed outside the minister&#8217;s cabin, four of them are foreigners. Three of them are of physically disabled people, two are mentally challenged and one of a south Indian traditional dance. These posters also have mugshots of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Rajkumar Badole and minister of state for social justice Dilip Kamble.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius is a South African double-amputee sprinter, also known as the Blade Runner. His legs were amputated from below the knee when he was 11 months old but has competed in events for single below-knee amputees and normal athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was sentenced to five years in jail for culpable homicide after shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from Badole&#8217;s office said they were not aware of who featured in the posters or what their background was.<\/p>\n<p>However, sources said Gajanan Wagh, a BJP man who hails from the minister&#8217;s native town and who is considered close to him, had selected and displayed the posters with the minister&#8217;s permission.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic champion who is serving a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend, is the role model for the Maharashtra state social justice department. His picture has been displayed outside the Mantralaya cabin of minister Rajkumar&#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\/6878"}],"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=6878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6879,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6878\/revisions\/6879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6878"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianewsnet.com\/marathi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}