{"id":22033,"date":"2025-02-02T13:36:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/declare-kerala-backward-if-you-want-funds-ministers-remark-sparks-controversy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T13:36:38","slug":"declare-kerala-backward-if-you-want-funds-ministers-remark-sparks-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/02\/declare-kerala-backward-if-you-want-funds-ministers-remark-sparks-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Declare Kerala backward if you want funds&#8217;: Minister&#8217;s remark sparks controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CPI(M) leaders M V Govindan and E P Jayarajan condemned the Union Budget 2025-26 for ignoring Kerala&#8217;s key demands and accused the Centre of discriminating against the state. They criticized Union Minister of State George Kurian\u2019s remarks suggesting Kerala declare itself backward to receive more funds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CPI(M) leaders M V Govindan and E P Jayarajan condemned the Union Budget 2025-26 for ignoring Kerala&#8217;s key demands and accused the Centre of discriminating against the state. They criticized Union Minister of State George Kurian\u2019s remarks suggesting Kerala declare itself backward to receive more funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22034,"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\/22033"}],"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=22033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}