{"id":102889,"date":"2026-04-10T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/kin-try-to-give-veerappan-a-robin-hood-aura-join-fray-as-defenders-of-tamil-nationalism\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:35:58","slug":"kin-try-to-give-veerappan-a-robin-hood-aura-join-fray-as-defenders-of-tamil-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/10\/kin-try-to-give-veerappan-a-robin-hood-aura-join-fray-as-defenders-of-tamil-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Kin try to give Veerappan a Robin Hood aura, join fray as &#8216;defenders of Tamil nationalism&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veerappan&#8217;s daughter Vidhyarani and widow Muthulakshmi are entering electoral politics. They aim to portray the late forest brigand as a protector of Tamil rights. Vidhyarani is contesting from Mettur and Muthulakshmi from Krishnagiri. Both candidates are backed by parties supporting Tamil nationalism. Their campaigns focus on their father&#8217;s legacy and local issues.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veerappan&#8217;s daughter Vidhyarani and widow Muthulakshmi are entering electoral politics. They aim to portray the late forest brigand as a protector of Tamil rights. Vidhyarani is contesting from Mettur and Muthulakshmi from Krishnagiri. Both candidates are backed by parties supporting Tamil nationalism. Their campaigns focus on their father&#8217;s legacy and local issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":102890,"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\/102889"}],"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=102889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}