{"id":665995,"date":"2026-01-18T21:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=665995"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T01:56:51","slug":"bjp-hits-back-at-raj-thackerays-rasmalai-jibe-mocks-civic-poll-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/665995\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP hits back at Raj Thackeray&#8217;s Rasmalai jibe, mocks civic poll defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-665996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/21-13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"454\" \/>New Delhi.<\/span><\/strong><span dir=\"auto\">\u00a0The BJP and its allies have secured a decisive victory in the Maharashtra civic elections. After the strong performance in the BMC elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has responded to Raj Thackeray&#8217;s jibe at Annamalai. BJP MP from Bengaluru Central, Karnataka, PC Mohan, posted on Instagram after the decisive BMC results and wrote, &#8220;Ordered some Rasmalai.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">Buoyed by the BMC victory, young BJP MP Tejasvi Surya also took a dig at Raj Thackeray, describing the victory as sweet as rasmalai. Congratulating Maharashtra CM Fadnavis and party workers, he wrote, &#8220;The triple engine government under Prime Minister Modi&#8217;s leadership will work vigorously to redevelop Mumbai and improve the ease of living for all Mumbaikars.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"auto\">It&#8217;s worth noting that these reactions from BJP leaders are in response to Raj Thackeray&#8217;s jibe at former Tamil Nadu BJP president Annamalai, referring to him as &#8220;Rasmalai.&#8221; During a rally, Annamalai had described Mumbai as a city not just of Maharashtra but of the world. This sparked considerable uproar from the opposition. Raj Thackeray went a step further and launched personal attacks on Annamalai.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi.\u00a0The BJP and its allies have secured a decisive victory in the Maharashtra civic elections. After the strong performance in the BMC elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has responded to Raj Thackeray&#8217;s jibe at Annamalai. BJP MP from Bengaluru Central, Karnataka, PC Mohan, posted on Instagram after the decisive BMC results and wrote, &#8220;Ordered some Rasmalai.&#8221; Buoyed by the BMC victory, young BJP MP Tejasvi Surya also took a dig at Raj Thackeray, describing the victory as sweet as rasmalai. Congratulating Maharashtra CM Fadnavis and party workers, he wrote,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":665996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47743],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665995","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\/665995","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=665995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665997,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665995\/revisions\/665997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}