{"id":92025,"date":"2026-02-16T10:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/i-am-not-a-rahulian-congress-rift-blows-up-as-mani-shankar-aiyar-goes-on-name-calling-spree\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:36:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:36:24","slug":"i-am-not-a-rahulian-congress-rift-blows-up-as-mani-shankar-aiyar-goes-on-name-calling-spree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/i-am-not-a-rahulian-congress-rift-blows-up-as-mani-shankar-aiyar-goes-on-name-calling-spree\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I am not a Rahulian’: Congress rift blows up as Mani Shankar Aiyar goes on name-calling spree"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mani Shankar Aiyar invoked B.R. Ambedkar after the Congress distanced itself from his praise of Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan government. Aiyar criticized Rahul Gandhi and Pawan Khera, calling Khera a “puppet” and “parrot.” He expressed contempt for Khera and questioned the party’s handling of dissent, contrasting it with Nehru’s era.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mani Shankar Aiyar invoked B.R. Ambedkar after the Congress distanced itself from his praise of Kerala’s Pinarayi Vijayan government. Aiyar criticized Rahul Gandhi and Pawan Khera, calling Khera a “puppet” and “parrot.” He expressed contempt for Khera and questioned the party’s handling of dissent, contrasting it with Nehru’s era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":92026,"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\/92025"}],"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=92025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}