{"id":3677,"date":"2015-11-24T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-11-24T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T09:13:18","slug":"the-image-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-image-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The Image of the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"

So how has the government reacted to Aamir Khan’s recent comments about the growing intolerance in India? Rediff reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The government on Tuesday termed as “misplaced” superstar Aamir Khan’s comments on growing intolerance, saying such statements only bring disrepute to the country as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n

“His comments on intolerance is completely misplaced. Comments like this only bring the image of country and the Prime Minister Modi down,” Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi when asked to comment on Aamir Khan’s statement on Monday at an award function in the national capital.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Modi government’s obsession with optics is now getting beyond parody. These guys are more concerned with image than substance. This is understandable during a campaign, but they won the damn election and are actually governing now. Why so insecure?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, bhakts on Twitter have made it quite clear that Aamir’s claims of intolerance won’t be tolerated. What fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So how has the government reacted to Aamir Khan’s recent comments about the growing intolerance in India? Rediff reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

The government on Tuesday termed as “misplaced” superstar Aamir Khan’s comments on growing intolerance, saying such statements only bring disrepute to the country as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n

“His comments on intolerance is completely misplaced. Comments like this only bring the image of country and the Prime Minister Modi down,” Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju told reporters on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi when asked to comment on Aamir Khan’s statement on Monday at an award function in the national capital.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Modi government’s obsession with optics is now getting beyond parody. These guys are more concerned with image than substance. This is understandable during a campaign, but they won the damn election and are actually governing now. Why so insecure?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, bhakts on Twitter have made it quite clear that Aamir’s claims of intolerance won’t be tolerated. What fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Image of the Country - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-image-of-the-country\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Image of the Country - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So how has the government reacted to Aamir Khan’s recent comments about the growing intolerance in India? 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