{"id":279581,"date":"2024-10-13T17:12:40","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=279581"},"modified":"2024-10-13T17:18:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T09:18:16","slug":"politicians-murder-rocks-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=279581","title":{"rendered":"Politician&#8217;s Murder Rocks India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW DELHI, Oct 13 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; The chilling murder of leading politician, Baba Siddique, 66, in India&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, last night, has rocked India, hitting media headlines for over 12 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The murder came weeks ahead of Assembly elections in the north-western state of Maharashtra. Politicians cutting across party leaders in the country have condemned the killing, and called for an immediate investigation to find out the murderers&#8217; motive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddique would be buried this evening in Mumbai, as per Muslim customs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prominent Muslim leader in Maharashtra politics, Siddique belonged to one of the ruling parties, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). He had been a state-level lawmaker and minister in the past. His son is currently a lawmaker in the Maharashtra legislative assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Mumbai Police, three shooters were involved in carrying out the politician&#8217;s killing. While two were nabbed immediately after the crime, the identity of the third had been established and efforts were made to arrest him.&#8211; NNN-PTI &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, Oct 13 (NNN-PTI) &#8211; The chilling murder of leading politician, Baba Siddique, 66, in India&#8217;s financial capital, Mumbai, last night, has rocked India, hitting media headlines for over 12 hours. The murder came weeks ahead of Assembly elections in the north-western state of Maharashtra. Politicians cutting across party leaders in the country have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":279584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279581"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279585,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279581\/revisions\/279585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/279584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}