{"id":74240,"date":"2025-11-13T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/loyalty-undermines-democracy-tharoor-calls-out-leader-worship-jibe-at-cong\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:36:47","slug":"loyalty-undermines-democracy-tharoor-calls-out-leader-worship-jibe-at-cong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/13\/loyalty-undermines-democracy-tharoor-calls-out-leader-worship-jibe-at-cong\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Loyalty undermines democracy&#8217;: Tharoor calls out leader worship; jibe at Cong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated that a growing culture of loyalty to political leaders over principles is weakening India&#8217;s democracy. He observed that increasingly polarized public discourse leaves little room for serious engagement with political values. Tharoor&#8217;s remarks highlight his recurring call for politics rooted in principles rather than personality.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress MP Shashi Tharoor stated that a growing culture of loyalty to political leaders over principles is weakening India&#8217;s democracy. He observed that increasingly polarized public discourse leaves little room for serious engagement with political values. Tharoor&#8217;s remarks highlight his recurring call for politics rooted in principles rather than personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":74241,"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\/74240"}],"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=74240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}