{"id":73388,"date":"2018-01-03T15:09:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=73388"},"modified":"2018-01-03T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T22:09:11","slug":"western-dress-is-foreign-imposed-slavishness-bjps-subramanian-swamy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/01\/03\/western-dress-is-foreign-imposed-slavishness-bjps-subramanian-swamy\/","title":{"rendered":"Western dress is foreign imposed slavishness: BJP&#8217;s Subramanian Swamy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy TIMESOFINDIA.COM<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Members of the\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Bharatiya-Janata-Party\">BJP<\/a>\u00a0should refrain from wearing Western attire, as it is &#8220;foreign imposed slavishness&#8221; and not suited to the Indian climate,\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Rajya-Sabha\">Rajya Sabha<\/a>\u00a0MP\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/Subramanian-Swamy\">Subramanian Swamy<\/a>\u00a0averred on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Swamy took to Twitter and expounded on ways to improve and enforce party discipline in the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Western dress is a foreign imposed slavishness. BJP should make it of party discipline for Ministers to wear Indian climate friendly clothes,&#8221; he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The BJP leader also suggested that party members should not imbibe alcohol. Citing Article 49 of the constitution, Swamy said he was against penal action for consumption of liquor, but the saffron party should adopt a ban on\u00a0<a class=\"key_underline\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/alcohol\">alcohol<\/a>\u00a0as the official party line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Article 49 of Constitution directs alcohol drinks be banned. While I am not for penal action, BJP should make as part of party discipline,&#8221; he said in another tweet.<br \/>\nIt should be noted that Article 49 does not in any way impose bans or penalize consumption of liquor. However, the Directive Principle in Article 47 states &#8220;the State shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of intoxicating drinks and drugs which are injurious to health.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy TIMESOFINDIA.COM NEW DELHI: Members of the\u00a0BJP\u00a0should refrain from wearing Western attire, as it is &#8220;foreign imposed slavishness&#8221; and not suited to the Indian climate,\u00a0Rajya Sabha\u00a0MP\u00a0Subramanian Swamy\u00a0averred on Tuesday. Swamy took to Twitter and expounded on ways to improve and enforce party discipline in the BJP. &#8220;Western dress is a foreign imposed slavishness. BJP should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}