{"id":35424,"date":"2026-09-01T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/sam-pitroda-statement-on-minorities-in-india\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:27:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:57:37","slug":"sam-pitroda-statement-on-minorities-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/sam-pitroda-statement-on-minorities-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Pitroda Statement on Minorities in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div xmlns:default=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" id=\"\">\n<div class=\"f3e032cb\"><picture class=\"c62bd949\" style=\"visibility:visible\"><source media=\"(max-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/360x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/01\/dbgifmagic__36_1788230400411.gif\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/webp\/thumb\/512x0\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/01\/dbgifmagic__36_1788230400411.gif\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/images.bhaskarassets.com\/web2images\/1884\/2026\/09\/01\/dbgifmagic__36_1788230400411.gif\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" class=\"f97587ba\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda targeted PM Narendra Modi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and the central government over several issues. Reacting to PM Modi\u2019s \u2018Dimagi Naxal\u2019 remark, he said speaking in support of the poor, Dalits and minorities is neither Naxalism nor communism.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\">Calling the remark baseless, Pitroda said humanity should be placed above everything and that all people come from the same place. Responding to a statement by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat, Pitroda said people from different religions in India should be asked directly how they feel about themselves in the country today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"word-break:break-word;text-align:left;white-space:pre-line\"><strong>The story is being continuously updated.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:0\"\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda targeted PM Narendra Modi, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and the central government over several issues. Reacting to PM Modi\u2019s \u2018Dimagi Naxal\u2019 remark, he said speaking in support of the poor, Dalits and minorities is neither Naxalism nor communism. Calling the remark baseless, Pitroda said humanity should be placed above&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32286,22208,32287,25444,131,22607,22606,32285],"class_list":["post-35424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nation","tag-indian-overseas-congress","tag-indian-politics","tag-minorities-in-india","tag-mohan-bhagwat","tag-narendra-modi","tag-political-controversy","tag-rss","tag-sam-pitroda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petrolnews.in\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}