{"id":128044,"date":"2015-08-04T00:30:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2015\/08\/04\/govt-open-for-talks-with-ftii\/"},"modified":"2015-08-04T00:30:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T00:30:34","slug":"govt-open-for-talks-with-ftii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/04\/govt-open-for-talks-with-ftii\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt open for  talks with FTII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/><\/p>\n<div>The government is open for discussions with FTII students who have been opposing the appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as the facility\u2019s chairman, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Monday.<\/div>\n<div>While addressing the media outside the parliament, Rathore said that \u201cmaking this issue political is the biggest mistake, probably it reveals the source of the strike\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cDiscussions on demands raised by FTII (Film and Television Institute of India) students are going on for some time. Government is very liberal towards students.\u201d The minister said it is a section of students who want to continue with the strike.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cA section of students want to continue with the strike even after the government held discussions with them to resolve issue,\u201d he said. \u201cSomewhere a small segment of students was being misled by a political party or person,\u201d he said in an obvious reference to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who has expressed support to the FTII students.<\/div>\n<div>Over 200 students are on strike for over 50 days as they feel Chauhan, who played \u2018Yudhishthir\u2019 in \u201cMahabharat\u201d, lacks the stature and vision to head the premier institution on film studies.<\/div>\n<div>The students allege that the decision of appointing Chauhan is \u201cpolitically motivated\u201d.<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is open for discussions with FTII students who have been opposing the appointment of actor and BJP member Gajendra Chauhan as the facility\u2019s chairman, Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore said on Monday. While addressing the media outside the parliament, Rathore said that \u201cmaking this issue political is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}