{"id":661348,"date":"2024-05-10T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T02:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=661348"},"modified":"2024-05-10T22:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T02:06:58","slug":"mani-shankar-iyer-clarified-on-his-statement-regarding-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/661348\/","title":{"rendered":"Mani Shankar Iyer clarified on his statement regarding Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-661349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/manishankar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/>A video of Congress leader Mani Shankar Iyer has surfaced, in which he said that we should respect Pakistan because Pakistan has a nuclear bomb. BJP surrounded the Congress party regarding his statement. However, now he has clarified his statement and said that this is an old video. He said that BJP&#8217;s Lok Sabha campaign is faltering and hence old videos are being taken out. Mani Shankar Iyer said, &#8216;I am seen wearing a sweater in the video, so it is natural that it was made several months ago in winter. BJP&#8217;s Lok Sabha campaign is faltering and hence old videos are being taken out. I&#8217;m not going to fall into their game. Those who want to know can read my two books &#8216;Memoirs of a Maverick&#8217; and &#8216;The Rajiv I Knew&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the video on which Mani Shankar&#8217;s statements are being made, Iyer said that &#8216;Pakistan is a sovereign country and they also have respect, while maintaining that respect, you can talk to them whatever you want, but at least talk. You are roaming around with a gun and that is increasing the tension. Iyer said, &#8216;What will happen if some madman comes to power there, he has a nuclear bomb. We also have it, but if a bomb explodes at Lahore station, the radiation from the bomb will reach Amritsar in just 8 seconds. In such a situation, we should try to stop the use of bombs through talks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Congress leader Mani Shankar Iyer has surfaced, in which he said that we should respect Pakistan because Pakistan has a nuclear bomb. BJP surrounded the Congress party regarding his statement. However, now he has clarified his statement and said that this is an old video. He said that BJP&#8217;s Lok Sabha campaign is faltering and hence old videos are being taken out. Mani Shankar Iyer said, &#8216;I am seen wearing a sweater in the video, so it is natural that it was made several months ago in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":661349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661350,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661348\/revisions\/661350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}