{"id":102238,"date":"2026-04-07T14:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/standards-should-not-be-lowered-how-tharoor-reacted-to-kharges-gujarat-remark\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:35:48","slug":"standards-should-not-be-lowered-how-tharoor-reacted-to-kharges-gujarat-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/standards-should-not-be-lowered-how-tharoor-reacted-to-kharges-gujarat-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Standards should not be lowered&#8217;: How Tharoor reacted to Kharge&#8217;s Gujarat remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s remarks about Kerala voters being &#8220;educated and clever&#8221; and unlike those in Gujarat have drawn sharp criticism from the BJP. Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor responded by urging a higher standard of political discourse, stating that &#8220;our standards should not be lowered to that of those who use bad language.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge&#8217;s remarks about Kerala voters being &#8220;educated and clever&#8221; and unlike those in Gujarat have drawn sharp criticism from the BJP. Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor responded by urging a higher standard of political discourse, stating that &#8220;our standards should not be lowered to that of those who use bad language.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":102239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}