{"id":8165,"date":"2008-11-21T01:06:23","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/11\/21\/cherie-blair-caught-in-punjab-politics\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T01:06:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T01:06:23","slug":"cherie-blair-caught-in-punjab-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/11\/21\/cherie-blair-caught-in-punjab-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherie Blair caught in Punjab politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Congress legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira wrote a letter to Cherie Blair objecting to her comments about senior Akali Dal leader Jagir Kaur on Tuesday. Blair told in  a gathering at a government school in Punjab&#8217;s Kapurthala district, to consider Jagir Kaur as a &#8216;role model&#8217;.<br \/>\nCherie had said, &#8220;The founder-chairman of the Pushpawati Loomba Trust Raj Loomba and the first woman SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur should be role models for boys and girls.&#8221;<br \/>\nKhaira objected the same and said, &#8220;Cherie Blair sending out wrong message to girls by asking them to emulate Jagir Kaur.&#8221;<br \/>\nKhaira objected to Blair&#8217;s comment as he claimed that Jagir Kaur is facing a criminal trial for conspiring to kill her daughter in 2000 for marying against her wishes.<br \/>\nBut Jagir Kaur has questioned Khaira&#8217;s need to send the letter to Blair, saying that Blair does not need Khaira&#8217;s permission to say anything.  The senior Akali Dal Leader said, &#8220;Does she (Cherie Blair) have to ask him (Khaira) for permission before she says anything? I didn&#8217;t tell her to say anything about me. Has she passed a law for people to consider me as a role model? She only said what she was feeling.&#8221;<br \/>\nCherie Blair was invited by a London based NRI to inaugurate a government building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress legislator Sukhpal Singh Khaira wrote a letter to Cherie Blair objecting to her comments about senior Akali Dal leader Jagir Kaur on Tuesday. Blair told in a gathering at a government school in Punjab&#8217;s Kapurthala district, to consider Jagir Kaur as a &#8216;role model&#8217;. Cherie had said, &#8220;The founder-chairman of the Pushpawati Loomba Trust [&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-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","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=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}