{"id":111083,"date":"2026-05-21T14:36:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/i-vadasseri-damodara-menon-satheesan-why-kerala-cms-name-sparked-congress-unease\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T14:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T14:36:25","slug":"i-vadasseri-damodara-menon-satheesan-why-kerala-cms-name-sparked-congress-unease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/i-vadasseri-damodara-menon-satheesan-why-kerala-cms-name-sparked-congress-unease\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I, Vadasseri Damodara Menon Satheesan&#8217;: Why Kerala CM&#8217;s name sparked Congress unease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala CM VD Satheesan faces a political storm over using his full legal name, including &#8216;Menon&#8217;, during his oath. Critics within his party argue it contradicts the Congress&#8217;s secular image and signals caste politics. Satheesan defended the move, stating it was to honor his late parents, not a political statement.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala CM VD Satheesan faces a political storm over using his full legal name, including &#8216;Menon&#8217;, during his oath. Critics within his party argue it contradicts the Congress&#8217;s secular image and signals caste politics. Satheesan defended the move, stating it was to honor his late parents, not a political statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":111084,"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\/111083"}],"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=111083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}